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Chargement... We Are Satellitespar Sarah Pinsker
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. maybe 3.5 stars - interesting story, but a little haven't-I-read-this-before feeling. Take out some of the modern details about (introductions come with pronouns, family situations), and change the main element of the story to a different technology, and this becomes lots of older stories about the dangers of technology and its effect on society. ( ) Balkenhol’s Pilot, a brain enhancing implant, test the ties between a close-knit family. Teenaged David successfully lobbies his mothers to get a Pilot; however, epilepsy prevents Sophie, David’s sister, from the possibility of getting an implant. Their parents are likewise divided: Julie succumbs to the lure of accomplish more with her time, while Val resists “elective brain surgery”. As the children grow into adulthood, Pinker and Dunne quietly unwind a cautionary tale firmly rooted in current reality with just a whiff of cyberpunk futurism. Dunne slips the listener into each character’s perspective as chapters alternate between family members. Against the family drama, deep issues of access, discrimination, and corporate responsibility are addressed. Dunne rachets the tension to the boiling point as the family starts to unravel. Filled with moments of heart-wrenching introspection and thought-provoking realism, We Are Satellites is perfect for discussion. The improved review was published in Booklist for August 2021. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"From award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them. Everybody's getting one. Val and Julie just want what's best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when teenage son David comes home one day asking for a Pilot, a new brain implant to help with school, they reluctantly agree. This is the future, after all. Soon, Julie feels mounting pressure at work to get a Pilot to keep pace with her colleagues, leaving Val and Sophie part of the shrinking minority of people without the device. Before long, the implications are clear, for the family and society: get a Pilot or get left behind. With government subsidies and no downside, why would anyone refuse? And how do you stop a technology once it's everywhere? Those are the questions Sophie and her anti-Pilot movement rise up to answer, even if it puts them up against the Pilot's powerful manufacturer and pits Sophie against the people she loves most"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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