Speak

Description

Product ID:	9780356506098
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Speak
Authors:	Author: Louisa Hall
Page Count:	368
Subjects:	Science fiction, Science fiction
Description:	Select Guide Rating For fans of David Mitchell and Margaret Atwood comes this poignant novel from Waterstones Book Club author Louisa Hall, with a tale will make readers everywhere question what it really means to be human. Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven, calls Speak the 'rarest of finds'. She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen? From a pilgrim girl''s diary, to a traumatised child talking to a software program; from Alan Turing''s conviction in the 1950s, to a genius imprisoned in 2040 for creating illegally lifelike dolls: all these lives have shaped and changed a single artificial intelligence - MARY3. In Speak she tells you their story, and her own. It is the last story she will ever tell, spoken both in celebration and in warning. When machines learn to speak, who decides what it means to be human? ''TRANSFIXING'' New York Times ''BRILLIANT'' Huffington Post ''INCREDIBLE'' Buzzfeed ''HYPNOTIC'' Guardian ''A MASTERPIECE'' NPR
Imprint Name:	Orbit
Publisher Name:	Little, Brown Book Group
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2016-02-25

Weight	294 g
Dimensions	128 × 197 × 25 mm