Overview

In the Nevada desert, in the near future, a brilliant biologist and single mother named Naomi Chiang sets off a chain reaction that threatens to bring the networked world to its knees. When her seventeen-year-old son, Colt, who spends most of his time in the comfort of virtual reality, secretly releases her latest findings—a process for regrowing human tissue—Colt’s estranged father crashes into their lives again, backed by the secretive security organization he heads. The U.S. government wants Naomi’s research . . . and her son, who must leave the virtual sphere to discover the pleasures—and pains—of a life fully lived. Page-turning and thought-provoking, Connect is a whip-smart novel that explores what connection—both human and otherwise—might be in a digital age. It is a story of mothers and sons; but it is also about you, your phone, and the world to come.

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Absurdly brilliant. . . . A mind-expanding technothriller with a hotly beating human heart. --Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room Dazzling. . . . Propulsive and engrossing. --The Guardian Propulsively paced and ingeniously twisting. . . . A hyperactive, adrenaline-junkie dystopian thriller. --The Times (London) A wonderful novel, a tour de force. --Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea Unfolds in the deadly but jaunty style of a Hollywood action thriller . . . A gonzo hybrid between The Matrix and Fifty Shades of Grey, written in its best moments with the pace and wit of Dave Eggers's The Circle. --The Observer (London) Instantly convincing. . . . Powerful, playful. . . . What feels so fresh is that this predictive novel avoids even a hint of the usual doomsday cliches. . . . Connect will subtly change the way you see the world. --The Sunday Times (London) 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 Gough out as a prophet among writers. --Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart Imagines a world of systems within systems in which the alteration of a few human cells could have far-reaching and astounding effects on the universe. Recommended for those who enjoy near-future speculation coupled with an engaging and effective exploration of a fractured family. --Booklist A teenager rewires his brain to ramp up his cognitive skills in this near-future techno-thriller. . . . Thought-provoking. --Kirkus Reviews

Instantly convincing . . . Powerful, playful . . . What feels so fresh is that this predictive novel avoids even a hint of the usual doomsday clich s. Instead, the transformative possibilities of technology are embraced to the point where 'love is an interface between you and the universe' comes to sound joyfully life-affirming rather than alarmingly clinical . . . Connect will subtly change the way you see the world. --Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times (London) Mayhem unfolds in the deadly but jaunty style of a Hollywood action thriller . . . A gonzo hybrid between The Matrix and Fifty Shades of Grey, written in its best moments with the pace and wit of Dave Eggers's The Circle. --Anthony Cummins, The Observer 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. As Colt would say: Wow, wow, wow. --Laura Freeman, The Times (London) Connect imagines a world of systems within systems in which the alteration of a few human cells could have far-reaching and astounding effects on the universe. Recommended for those who enjoy near-future speculation coupled with an engaging and effective exploration of a fractured family. --Booklist 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 Gough out as a prophet among writers.' --Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart A wonderful novel, a tour de force. --Joseph O'Connor, author of The Thrill of It All and Star of the Sea

Author Information

Julian Gough is the author of the novels Juno & Juliet, Jude in Ireland, Jude in London, and Connect; a poetry collection, Free Sex Chocolate; three children’s books; and the narrative ending the computer game Minecraft. A winner of the BBC National Short Story Award and the Prix Livrentête, he has been shortlisted twice for the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize, once for a Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award, and twice for an Irish Book of the Year Award. He lives in Berlin.

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