A jet-lagged Paul Tremblay goes head to head with a caffeinated CJ Tudor in a war of the words...
They talk about 'vomit drafts', Suburban Horror, tattoos, AI class action suits and marmite endings (a term lost on the American).
Paul discusses his satirical and funny new novel - 'Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep' - which is a book with many themes, including the joy of human creativity. Previous guest JD Kirk pitched one of Paul's novels ('Horror Movie') for his Book Off - and you can listen to that episode wherever you found this one!
CJ talks about her creepy, slow building new novel - 'Serenity Falls' - which is set in a perfect American town, which seems too good to be true (and is). This is CJ's THIRD time on Book Off! No author has ever Booked Off so many times - so she currently holds the crown!
THE BOOK OFF
'Sign Here' by Claudia Lux
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'Our Share Of Night' by Mariana Enriquez
But who will win?
Here's a little more info on our guests' latest novels:
'Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep' by Paul Tremblay
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn't like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world's largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can't refuse. One sham interview later, she's offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state from California to the East Coast. But he's not dead dead: he has an AI mind implanted in his head . . .
Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which he's trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn't remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person.
'Serenity Falls' by CJ Tudor
Welcome to Serenity Falls – the most idyllic, and safest, town in the US – a place to grow up, grow your family and grow old together. For Dan and his daughter, Sadie, it’s the perfect relocation option. A fresh start, thousands of miles from their troubled past in the UK.
But their idyll is shattered when they find a dead body in the swimming pool of their new house – a house Dan’s late mother kept secret from him all his life.
It’s just the start of a series of disturbing discoveries. Abandoned houses where people have seemingly just upped and left. The strange woman Sadie sees around town putting up ‘missing’ posters for a child who drowned almost thirty years ago. An ice cream van that drives around at night making sure residents are asleep...
As plans gear up to celebrate Serenity Falls’ fiftieth anniversary, something is stirring beneath the surface of the blissful façade. Is Serenity Falls really the perfect town or is it founded on something far darker? And is someone so desperate to keep its secrets that they’d resort to anything to preserve them?
Who? He can't remember.
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