Users by Colin Winnette audiobook

Users

By Colin Winnette
Read by Justin Price

Highbridge Audio

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9798212450232

  • ISBN: 9798212450218

  • ISBN: 9798212450225

Runtime: 6.12 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award

A Nylon Magazine Pick of the Month

A New Yorker Magazine Pick of the Week

A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Out in Paperback

Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its "original experiences," has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the "game" is simple: a user's simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the company's strategic vision puts The Ghost Lover at the center of a platform-wide controversy, Miles becomes the target of user outrage, and starts receiving a series of anonymous death threats. Typed notes sealed in envelopes with no postage or return address, these persistent threats push Miles into a paranoid panic, blurring his own sense of reality, catalyzing the collapse of his career, his marriage, and his relationship with his children.

The once-promising road to success becomes a narrow set of choices for Miles, who, in a last ditch effort to save his job, pitches his masterpiece, a revolutionary device code-named the Egg, which will transform the company.

In a world rife with the unchecked power and ambition of tech, Users investigates—with both humor and creeping dread—how interpersonal experiences and private decisions influence the hasty developments that have the power to permanently alter the landscape of human experience.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Gripping, clever, and terrifying, Users sucks you in just like a video game.” Esquire
“[A] sharp, Charlie Kauffman-esque thriller.” Entertainment Weekly

Reviews

Reviews

Author

Author Bio: Colin Winnette

Author Bio: Colin Winnette

Colin Winnette is an author of several books, including The Job of the Wasp, which was an American Booksellers Association's Indie Next Pick, and Users, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Playboy, McSweeney's, The Believer, and the Paris Review Daily. A former bookseller in Texas, Vermont, New York, and California, he is now a writer living in San Francisco.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 6.12
Audience: Adult
Language: English