5/31/2023 0 Comments Every Line of You by Naomi Gibson![]() ![]() But what really happened to human Abbie, and why is new-Abbie getting messages from a stranger? As the replacement wife secretly follows the trail left by her previous self, the real story, intercut with a POV apparently from one of her husband’s employees, starts to unfold. These books have all engaged with it in different ways:Ībbie wakes up realizing that she’s been in an accident, only to discover that actual Abbie has died and her mad-tech-billionaire husband has reanimated her as a robot with his dead wife’s memories and personality. The sentient AI is appearing in more and more stories, as writers follow, and then leapfrog beyond, the science. ![]() So, what happens when the original wakes up and finds an interloper has taken her place? A new daughter, cloned and boosted by AI, joins her parents in their new luxurious life, but this one is fine-tuned to be perfect. Is this too good to be true? (spoiler: yes). She’s in a coma, and hope is draining away, until the family are offered a lifeline in the form of a medical trial and new life in Geneva. ![]() In my book, The New One, a family with a difficult daughter almost lose her after a hit and run accident. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() His defunct official website was named Bob Ong Pinoy, which marked him as a staunch lover of everything Pinoy. He is Bob Ong-not his real name-the most unusual best-selling Filipino author you’ve never met.īob Ong writes in Filipino. The Sunday Inquirer Magazine has this to say of him:ĬONSIDER him the mass-market mystery man, a publishing phenomenon whose blockbuster book sales are equaled only by the anonymity he maintains. His five books combined have sold almost a quarter of a million copies. Hiding under the pseudonym, he has amassed an avid and fiercely loyal fan base in the literary world of Manila. Nobody, except for his agent, knows who he is. How about if you throw in a cloak of mystery, not of the book now but of the author? Bob Ong is one such marketing marvel. What makes a bestseller? Of course, it helps if the author has built a name for himself, has a good-sized faithful following, a good story (but of course), excellent marketing, good reviews, and so on. ![]() ![]() Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography by Guy Debord (1955) The Situationist International Anthology, generally recognized as the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English, presents a rich variety of articles, leaflets, graffiti and internal documents, ranging from early experiments in "psychogeography" to lucid analyses of the Watts riot, the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and other crises and upheavals of the sixties.įormulary for a New Urbanism Ivan Chtcheglov (1953) Since then-although the SI itself was dissolved in 1972, situationist theories and tactics have continued to inspire radical currents all over the world. Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by most leftists, they developed an incisive critique of the global spectacle-commodity system and of its "Communist" pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people's passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. ![]() In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. NB: Many of the texts below are also included as standalone articles in Libcom's archive of the International Situationniste journal. ![]() |