Every Version of You
by Grace Chan
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Pub Date 22 May 2025 | Archive Date 31 Mar 2025
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Description
** Please note - this is an uncorrected digital ARC **
Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror, with a dash of Murakami surrealism thrown in, in this speculative literary novel about staying in love after mind-uploading into virtual reality.
In late-twenty-first-century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside an immersive, 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.
Stunning and spellbinding, with an emotionally compelling love story and a complex mother-daughter relationship at its centre, Every Version of You unpicks the ties between life and technology to ask what truly makes us human, and what in our world is worth preserving. Perfect for fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
Advance Praise
'It's like Ready Player One meets Station Eleven and Ex Machina, and it's the book I can't stop thinking about this year' - TIME OUT
'Confronting what might one day be left on a ruined, "offline" Earth is a powerful way to refocus the lens on the world we are presently creating, and the politics informing what we build - whether it's from bricks or code' - GUARDIAN
'With an intriguing blend of cli-fi, philosophy of mind and transhumanist themes, Grace Chan's novel delivers striking science fiction steeped in absurdity and dystopian menace' - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
'A meditative, gorgeous, endlessly imaginative take on the future of virtual reality and what it means to be human, as well as a deeply tender story of love and the immigrant experience... A transcendent debut' - GRACE D LI, author of Portrait of a Thief
'The haunting images in Every Version of You followed me long after I turned the final page... Grace Chan is a vivid, insightful storyteller' - ELIZABETH TAN, author of Smart Ovens for Lonely People
'Visceral, mind-bending and tender' - INGA SIMPSON, author of The Last Woman in the World
** Winner of the University of Sydney’s People’s Choice Award / Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Christina Stead Prize and The Age Book of the Year / Longlisted for the Stella Prize **
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780857309150 |
| PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 288 |
