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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our consideration.
Putnam Pub Group
An agoraphobic engineer named Henry spends his days locked away in his extraordinarily sensible house constructing freaky little robots, together with one that appears like a magician and rides round on a tiny bike. His spouse, Lily, is the one individual he actually ever sees, however issues have grown tense between them — a scenario solely worsened by the truth that he is often holed up alone within the attic engaged on a secret challenge. At some point, Lily invitations some former coworkers over to encourage Henry to socialize, and Henry takes the chance to lastly exhibit his biggest creation: William, a sophisticated AI system housed in a crude robotic physique. Encroaching horror.
Mason Coile’s William (stylized W1LL1AM) takes the well-worn trope of a naive creator confronted with their out-of-control creation and provides haunted smart-house creepiness, with a twist ending. Naturally, it is drawn comparisons to Frankenstein and even The Shining, however I might dare to say there is a trace of Demon Seed in there, too. That is one other quick learn, coming in at beneath 250 pages, and it is simply the proper factor to get you into the spooky season temper. It takes place, appropriately, on Halloween.
$22 at Amazon
Penguin Press
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter and its subsequent transformation into X as we now comprehend it dominated headlines for months, so that you could not be blamed for feeling such as you’ve heard all there’s to find out about the entire saga. However for individuals who need a deeper look into the way it all transpired, journalists Kate Conger and Ryan Mac have dredged up a ton of beforehand unreported info of their ebook Character Restrict, which pulls from interviews with insiders and inner recordings from the rooms the place all of it went down to provide us the total story of Twitter’s takeover. And it’s a messy one.
$26 at Amazon
Picture Comics
I can not consider one other new collection in current reminiscence that is left me so hungry for the subsequent subject as The Tin Can Society #1. Earlier than I get into it, although, I ought to be aware that this primary subject opens with a content material warning about violence and discussions of ableism and racism. It’s intense from the soar. The Tin Can Society begins with a criminal offense scene: tech mogul turned superhero Johnny Moore has been murdered.
Moore, born with spina bifida, rose to fame because the genius creator of superior exoskeleton-style mobility aids, and he wore a full-body armored model of one among these fits whereas working because the vigilante hero, Caliburn. When he is discovered lifeless, the swimsuit is gone. The Tin Can Society follows Moore’s childhood mates, who come collectively after years aside to resolve his homicide. There’s loads of coronary heart within the first subject because it bounces between their present-day setting and the previous, constructing out the backstory of Moore’s adolescence and the tight-knit good friend group that when was. I am excited to see the place this one goes. The Tin Can Society will probably be a nine-part mini collection, and the subsequent subject drops in late October.
$5 at Amazon
A home haunted by AI and the mysterious homicide of a superhero
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