An Android Awakes
A new way to combine art and prose in storytelling.
In the future your culture will be shaped by machines
Your world is manipulated by computer coding, search engines and social networks. It’s just a matter of time before everything you watch, read and listen to will be created by autonomous machines.
An Android Awakes : The struggle for survival and the fate of a story teller.
In the future some of us will become great writers, renowned artists, visionary filmmakers and talented photographers. Most of us though will just have more sex.
Go forward a few more generations and none of us are creative save that of our procreation. Our culture is shaped by machines. The novel has become a 1000 words.
Android Writer PD121928 is part of the Android Publishing Program. To replicate their idea of a writer’s life, his partner has been forcibly removed and he lives in soltitude with an allowance for drugs and prostitutes.
He also has just had his novel The Eating of Citizen Kane rejected. He has 14 more attempts to get a novel accepted for the humans by the Publishing Android Programme or he will be deactivated.
Can one of his characters and their story save him?
Introducing...
Finn
The Locust Wife
Abel Ford
Angel UK
Cai Lun
Richard Steinberger
The Great Explorer Umberto Amunsden
Commander Oleg
Aedus Cricklewood
The Amazing Arctic Sinking Man
Jiéyu
The Detective
and
Mark
Featuring Absolute Zero (the coolest spaceship ever built – literally), an ocean in the sky, sub-atomic particles, a Märchen zoo, android communion, naked angels and mockingbirds, An Android Awakes hurtles towards the shocking conclusion of Android Writer PD121928’s fate.
"Sex. Violence. Androids... very much in the style of classic 2000AD." - Lee Sullivan, Illustrator – 2000AD / Doctor Who / Transformers
"Illustrations reminiscent of Frank Miller’s Sin City and the novelised version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (illustrated by M.W. Kaluta)." - Richard Collingridge, Illustrator and concept designer, Walker Books / Random House
"Punchy & Cool" - Steve Dillon, Hellblazer / Preacher / X-Men / Wolverine
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Mike French
Mike French is the owner and senior editor of the prestigious literary magazine, The View From Here which has been called many fine things since it started in 2007 including, "Attractive, informative, sparkling and useful" by Iain M. Banks and for having a "great passion and drive" by Booker shortlisted Tom McCarthy. Mike’s debut novel, The Ascent of Isaac Steward came out in 2011 with Cauliay Publishing and was nominated for The Galaxy National Book Awards which due to an unfortunate clerical error was awarded to Dawn French.
Born in Cornwall in 1967, Mike spent his childhood flipping between England and Scotland with a few years in between in Singapore. Splitting his time between his own writing, editing the magazine, running author workshops and working with atp media in Luton, Mike is married with three children and a growing number of pets. He currently lives in Luton in the UK and when not working watches Formula 1, eats Ben & Jerry's Phish Food and listens to Noah and the Whale.
An Android Awakes
An Android Awakes consists of two books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
