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'In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise, and even eat in this digital utopia.
'Meanwhile their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments. Across the city, in the abandoned 'real' world, Tao-Yi's mother remains stubbornly offline, dwindling away between hospital visits and memories of her earlier life in Malaysia.
'When a new technology is developed to permanently upload a human brain to Gaia, Tao-Yi must decide what is most important: a digital future, or an authentic past.
'Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror, with a dash of Murakami surrealism thrown in, this is speculative literary fiction at its best.' (Publication summary)
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Works about this Work
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Weird Is In
2023
single work
essay
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , May 2023;'Australian fiction has long been dominated by the realist novel. A new wave of writers continue the avant-garde tradition—but are experimental and offbeat stories always destined to be relegated to a literary niche? '
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Out-of-body Ambivalence
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2022;
— Review of Every Version of You 2022 single work novel -
[Review] Every Version of You
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 155 2022;
— Review of Every Version of You 2022 single work novel -
Best of 2022 : Part Two
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 17 December - 6 January 2022;
— Review of A History of Dreams 2022 single work novel ; The Teeth of a Slow Machine 2022 selected work short story ; What Fear Was 2022 selected work short story ; Moon Sugar : A Novel 2022 single work novel ; Waypoints 2022 single work novel ; Every Version of You 2022 single work novel -
All Futures Are Possible
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , December 2022;
— Review of Song of Less 2022 selected work poetry ; Every Version of You 2022 single work novel'Early in Grace Chan’s novel Every Version of You, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin pass a monument erected at Melbourne’s Federation Square that commemorates the deaths caused by a US airstrike in 2041 – the attack, by now, a distant memory. At one point in Joan Fleming’s verse novel Song of Less, a character called Cousin Groundpigeon says ‘Remember countries?’ ' (Introduction)
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‘Essential’, ‘Quietly Hopeful’, ‘Propulsive’: The Best Australian Books Out in August
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 5 August 2022;
— Review of Train Lord 2022 single work autobiography ; Desire : A Reckoning 2022 single work autobiography ; Nimblefoot 2022 single work novel ; The Wrong Woman 2022 single work novel ; Every Version of You 2022 single work novel -
Every Version of You by Grace Chan Review – Would You Want to Live in the Metaverse?
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 5 August 2022;
— Review of Every Version of You 2022 single work novel'Set in the 2080s, this Australian debut maps the sci-fi question in a quiet romantic drama – asking what ties us to the world and each other' (Introduction)
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The Best New Books Released in August as Selected by Avid Readers and Critics
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2022;
— Review of Marlo 2022 single work novel ; Against Disappearance : Essays on Memory 2022 anthology essay ; Every Version of You 2022 single work novel -
Books Roundup
2022
single work
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , August 2022;
— Review of Everything Feels like the End of the World 2022 selected work short story ; Every Version of You 2022 single work novel ; Motherland 1985 single work poetry ; Train Lord 2022 single work autobiography -
Locus Looks at Books : Caren Gussoff Sumption
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Locus , October vol. 89 no. 4 2022; (p. 16-17)
— Review of Every Version of You 2022 single work novel -
Weird Is In
2023
single work
essay
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , May 2023;'Australian fiction has long been dominated by the realist novel. A new wave of writers continue the avant-garde tradition—but are experimental and offbeat stories always destined to be relegated to a literary niche? '
Awards
- 2023 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — People's Choice Award
- 2023 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Book of the Year
- 2023 longlisted The Stella Prize
- 2023 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
- 2023 longlisted Indie Awards — Debut Fiction