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Written by Colin Winnette
Narrated by Justin Price
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
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.
Editor's Note
For fans of ‘Severance’…
An unlikable video game designer named Miles creates a new virtual reality game that sparks unexpected backlash. As his career and personal life spiral, increasingly desperate Miles grasps for new ideas. Winnette (“The Job of the Wasp”) delivers a dizzying sci-fi thriller that explores the dangers of unchecked ambition and innovation. The perfect companion read for HBO’s “Severance,” starring Adam Scott.
Colin Winnette
Colin Winnette is the author of five books, including the SPD-bestseller Coyote (Les Figues) and Haints Stay (Two Dollar Radio). He was the winner of Les Figues Press's 2014 NOS Book Contest, as well as a finalist for Gulf Coast Magazine's Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's First Book Award. His writing has appeared in Lucky Peach, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, The American Reader, and numerous other publications and anthologies. He worked as a bookseller for most of his adult life, in Texas, New York, Vermont, and California. He lives San Francisco. More information can be found online at www.colinwinnette.net.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It was pretty good. I liked the audiobook I don’t think I would’ve made it through a physical copy of it though. I never felt bored but I did feel a little lost a few times about the point or plot.