Lucy H. Pearce and Christine Rose discuss contemporary dystopian fiction - The Circle - on the Creative Magic Book Club.
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The Circle is for lovers of 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaids Tale - a tech utopia/ dystopia published in 2013, set in the near future.
A clever examination of where we are going with social media and the dominance of likes and follower numbers.
It makes you more conscious of the way tech is shaping our world, our interactions, our creative choices and our very selves, as you read you see it everywhere and can't unsee it.
Available in paperback, ebook, audiobook and film starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega. Film available on Netflix and Prime.
About the Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet
'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world... Fast, witty and troubling' Washington Post
When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ...
'An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century' Vanity Fair
'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian
Dave Eggers is the author of many acclaimed books, including The Circle; What is the What and Zeitoun.
He is the founder of the publishing house and magazine McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world.
His work has been translated into forty-two languages.
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