A brilliantly and thrillingly smart novel of today and tomorrow, by one of the most original voices in Irish writing, for readers of William Gibson, Station Eleven and Ready Player One.
Julian Gough is the author of three previous comic novels and was formerly the lead singer of the underground literary band Toasted Heretic. In 2007 Julian won the BBC National Short Story Award and was shortlisted for the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize in 2008 and 2012. In 2011 he wrote the ending to Minecraft: Time magazine's computer game of the year. Praise for Julian Gough: 'Julian Gough is a wonderful writer' Sebastian Barry 'An outstanding talent' Observer 'Intelligent . . . and thoroughly entertaining' New York Times (Juno & Juliet) 'Extremely original and surprising' Sunday Independent (Jude) 'Gough makes it look easy, with an instinctive sense of timing, and a razor sharp and subversive intellect' Sunday Tribune (Jude)
A dazzling technothriller . . . propulsive and engrossing *
Guardian *
Connect is so plugged into the technological zeitgeist . . .
This is the world we know, several operating systems down the line
. . . Instantly convincing . . . It will subtly change the way
you see the world. * Sunday Times *
I found Connect propulsively paced and ingeniously twisting.
Gough has written a hyperactive, adrenaline-junkie dystopian
thriller that deserves to be made into a belter of a film
franchise. * The Times *
This stimulating tale of a coder and his mum is a hyper-digital
thriller . . . a story of family dysfunction plugged into larger
questions about reality, evolution and the west's
self-definition as "the good guys". * Observer *
An exciting literary thriller with plenty of interesting
ideas. * Mail on Sunday *
Read Connect by the absurdly brilliant Julian Gough,
a mind-expanding technothriller with a hotly beating human heart.
-- Emma Donoghue
Connect really is a work of genius. It confronts and explores the
nature of humanness and existence in a thrilling, immersive,
addictive way, and marks Julian out as a prophet among writers. --
Donal Ryan
A wonderful novel, a tour de force. -- Joseph O'Connor
This is a novel of enormous danger and risk . . . It is in the
lightness of the writing, the compelling force of the narrative
that the author achieves real brilliance. Gough has undoubtedly
arrived, as a master storyteller. -- Michael Harding
Connect has all the hallmarks of such futuristic classics as
War Of The Worlds and Brave New World, but it is also
a strong stand alone novel full of excitement, twists, and
turns, and stands shoulder to shoulder with any thriller being
published today. * Galway Advertiser *
A mind-warping futuristic thriller wrapped in a smorgasbord of
ideas . . . inventive and entertaining . . . Connect
might just be the perfect combination of beach read and literary
torchpaper. * Sunday Business Post (Ireland) *
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