Paul Tremblay's new novel Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep, a satirical horror about AI and bodily autonomy, was scheduled for release on June 30.
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Paul describes his upcoming novel Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep in characteristically self-deprecating terms ('I'm bad at the quick pitch'). The premise: a man signs his body over to a fictional Silicon Valley tech giant called Decillion before suffering a massive stroke and entering a vegetative state. The company implants AI and nanobots into his brain so someone can remote-control him like a video game, and his semi-estranged 24-year-old daughter — a former professional gamer — is hired to 'Weekend at Bernie's' him across the country. The book splits between her satirical chapters and 'You' chapters narrated from inside the controlled man's consciousness. Paul admits he was racing to finish the book before the premise became reality, and references a real news story about companies keeping human brains in jars and testing drugs on them — with a spokesperson noting the neural wiring is 'almost' not enough for consciousness.
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