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Nightmare in Silicon by [Colette Phair, Matthew Derby]

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Meet Ymo — the young, bold, sarcastic, and struggling test subject for medical trials — who decides to shed her gender, her body, and her ability to dream for a second chance at life as a robot. Fans of William Gibson and Margaret Atwood will be mesmerized by this fast-paced tale of survival in a not-too-distant future, seen through the eyes of a rebellious and free-spirited young woman coming to terms with who she is for the first time. But objectification of women takes on a whole new meaning in Ymo's binary world, where no one and nothing — not even one's own body — can be trusted. With a foreword by Matthew Derby and a new prologue by the author, this updated edition proves again why Alan Moore called Nightmare in Silicon beautiful, driven, and brave.

A portion of proceeds from this book will be donated to Planned Parenthood.

"Do you remember when Spielberg’s AI came out and every review seemed to mention that it had long been a pet project of Stanley Kubrick, and then went on to lament what an amazing creation it could have been in his hands? ...While in no way the same beast, Colette Phair’s debut Nightmare In Silicon is the closest analog to an imaginary Kubrick AI that you’re likely to find."
-JEREMY ROBERT JOHNSON (Verbicide Magazine), author of The Loop and Entropy In Bloom

"A toxic-shock torrent of bad energy and beautiful language, Colette Phair's Nightmare in Silicon is recklessly brave and driven writing, brimming with fluorescent style and startling ideas. Hers is a strong voice that demands and deserves to be listened to."
-ALAN MOORE, author of Batman: The Killing Joke and V For Vendetta

"Cyberpunk is alive and well. Nightmare in Silicon is convulsively funny, hideously diseased, erotically oozing, tightly plotted, and told with a wonderfully sharp tongue."
-RUDY RUCKER, author of Software and Mathematicians in Love

"A highly interior, marvelous short novel written from the point of view of a woman who — facing imminent death from illness — becomes the first person to have her consciousness transferred to a robot body."
-R. U. SIRIUS (H+ Magazine), coauthor (with Tim Leary) of Design for Dying and author of Counterculture Through the Ages

"If Kathy Acker had lived long enough to have access to an iPhone, Soylent, and Oculus, she might have come to sound like Colette Phair... Phair takes no prisoners in her vivid, sonorous truth-telling."
-PAUL DI FILIPPO, author of Ciphers and Ribofunk

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0845L9447
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dorénavant; 2 edition (22 January 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1208 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 99 pages

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Colette Phair is the author of Nightmare in Silicon, Permanence, You Are Not What You Seem, and In Your Shadow. Her short writings have been published in The Apocalypse Reader, 3:AM, Bitch Magazine, Women's Studies Quarterly, Bare Bone, and New Dead Families. Colette has worked and volunteered for several progressive nonprofits and political campaigns. She is an American living abroad as a digital nomad and has lived in Mexico, Spain, France, Cameroon, California, and Norway.

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