Author(s): J. O. Morgan

Novel | Dystopia, Science Fiction and Fantasy

A novel for our times- the story of how technology and our addiction to innovation is eroding our human rights and freedoms **Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 ** From the Costa Award winner, a highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction to innovation.

This is the tale of a new technology, an alternative history that unfolds over many decades. It is a fable told through a constantly shifting cast of characters, all drawn into the world of a machine that slowly alters every life it touches. But in this unending quest for progress, what will happen to the things that make us human- the memories, the fears, the love, the mortality? As we push towards a brave new world, what do we stand to lose?

'Such a super novel' Wendy Erskine
'A clever book...that will have you thinking about the machines in your own life' Sunday Times

Review: Appliance is a work of peculiar genius that gives the truth about modern technology. * The Times, *Sci-Fi Book of the Year* *
A serious-minded examination of the instinctive human ambivalence towards innovation. * Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2022* *
Smart, subtle and blissfully jargon-free sci-fi stories from one of Britain's most acclaimed poets. * Daily Telegraph, *Summer Reads of 2022* *
[With] poetic precision... Appliance most succeeds is in its little riot of the real in the face of digital abstraction. * Times Literary Supplement *
A clever book, delivered confidently, that will have you thinking about the machines in your own life. * Sunday Times *

Author Biography: J. O. Morgan is a Scottish author. His 2018 work Assurances, looking at the RAF's early involvement with maintaining the nuclear deterrent, won that year's Costa Poetry Award. He has been twice shortlisted for both the Forward and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Appliance is his second novel.