3.5
We Are Satellites
By Sarah PinskerPublisher Description
"Taut and elegant, carefully introspected and thoughtfully explored."—The New York Times
From Hugo award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them.
Everybody's getting one.
Val and Julie just want what’s best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when teenage son David comes home one day asking for a Pilot, a new brain implant to help with school, they reluctantly agree. This is the future, after all.
Soon, Julie feels mounting pressure at work to get a Pilot to keep pace with her colleagues, leaving Val and Sophie part of the shrinking minority of people without the device.
Before long, the implications are clear, for the family and society: get a Pilot or get left behind. With government subsidies and no downside, why would anyone refuse? And how do you stop a technology once it's everywhere? Those are the questions Sophie and her anti-Pilot movement rise up to answer, even if it puts them up against the Pilot's powerful manufacturer and pits Sophie against the people she loves most.
From Hugo award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them.
Everybody's getting one.
Val and Julie just want what’s best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when teenage son David comes home one day asking for a Pilot, a new brain implant to help with school, they reluctantly agree. This is the future, after all.
Soon, Julie feels mounting pressure at work to get a Pilot to keep pace with her colleagues, leaving Val and Sophie part of the shrinking minority of people without the device.
Before long, the implications are clear, for the family and society: get a Pilot or get left behind. With government subsidies and no downside, why would anyone refuse? And how do you stop a technology once it's everywhere? Those are the questions Sophie and her anti-Pilot movement rise up to answer, even if it puts them up against the Pilot's powerful manufacturer and pits Sophie against the people she loves most.
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Emmy
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“4/5
What would I do if everyone around me started getting a brain implant to help them focus/do more at once/be more productive? Probably sign up after I saw some success with it, lol. I could use the assistance sometimes…but also, a literal brain implant would have me wayyyy too scared.
This is a very interesting story about the implications of a new tech wave, how people embrace it, and what can happen to those who don’t for whatever reason. I really enjoyed seeing the differing perspectives of the family: Val, who refuses to get one PERIODT, her wife, Julie, who gets one to keep up with her career, David, who begs for one and is the first in the fam to get one, and Sophie, who can’t for medical reasons. Seeing how David and Sophie’s relationship changes as a result had me wondering about the reality of it all.
Very straightforward writing - the audiobook was great at giving some of the emotional conversations more ‘oomph.’ I’ll have to check out more of this author’s work.”
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“Wonderful read. Science fiction as an entry point into something vitally human. The author's use of sentence structure to convey a particular character's mindset was a treat, and showed a real command of language.”
About Sarah Pinsker
Sarah Pinsker's Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Award-winning short fiction has appeared in Asimov's and F&SF, as well as numerous other magazines, anthologies, and translation markets. She is a singer/songwriter who has toured behind four albums on various independent labels. She lives with her wife in Baltimore, Maryland.
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