I always think of a sci fi book Mum got called The Feed by Nick Clark Windo - Ai summary because time poor:
a dystopian sci-fi novel published in 2018. This book explores a world where society has become entirely dependent on a neural network called the Feed, which allows instant sharing of thoughts, memories, and experiences. When the Feed collapses, civilization falls into chaos, and the story follows a family struggling to survive in the aftermath.
The thing I remember most about it is that when the Feed goes down, some peoples minds just broke. They'd look for how to do things on the feed but it wasn't there - a consant searching for maps, guides, resources. People who didn't go on it all the time fared better. To survive, they had to learn everything from scratch. It really appealed to me - not particularly brilliantly written, but good enough to stick in my mind for years to come.
I hope the library has it, I'll add it to my list :) Thank you.
I read a few academic books on the digital dark age when researching my thesis (which was about the representation of death in Art) - so sounds like this would be up my alley.
One of my favourite parts of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is the analogue for TV where people rot their brains.
Today we've just got it in tiktok shorts, and in the palm of people's hands.
Even the news eg ABC are doing shorts! It's crazy. I mean, The Feed isn't as well written as DADOES, but it's a good read with food for thought. My Mum was always a fan of good stories of any kind of post apocalypse or speculative fiction - and still is, so I rely on her to find them for me, ahha. If it's a damn good story and a good read, I can put my love of literature aside :P
Science Fiction /is/ literature. I just finished my re-read of Ender's Game, and I'm about to start on Children of Time by Tchaikovsky. I have sixteen days on my loan and its 981 pages... I'm off to read at least 65 pages. :D
Get off Hive and into your book!!!!
I did, I soaked in the tub, and got through a few chapters. Unemployment has its perks. That's the biggest achievement I ... achieved today
Are you sure the author isn't M.T Anderson ? I found a book called "Feed" available at my library with a similar synopsis.
Yes I am positive.
And lol - just went looking and realised the BBC had made a miniseries based on the first chapter, which is likely terrible, but there you go
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feed_(British_TV_series)#:~:text=The%20Feed%20is%20a%20British,novel%20of%20the%20same%20name.
Yuck, TV?!
Ha, you know, I just like stories. I was beating myself up getting sucked into series and then I realized I'm just a sucker for a good story well told. As long as I'm still reading, TV series aren't a bad thing.
It doesn't seem like the library has this. I've put a hold on the other one, keep an eye out on my blog, eventually there will be a review :D