that is potentially responsible for engineering and escalating real-world mischief and disinformation in cities across the country. But CheshireCat’s also trying to solve a mystery, having been approached by what seems like another sentient A.I. Steph resolves to recruit CheshireCat to help. Soon Steph befriends another recent arrival: Nell, a quiet girl raised in a Christian doomsday cult, living temporarily with her polyamorous father and his partners because her mother’s gone missing under mysterious circumstances. The worthy sequel to “Catfishing on CatNet” - which managed to be both a fantastic thriller and a phenomenally warm and kind bildungsroman - “Chaos” introduces new characters and a dark mirror to CheshireCat, the friendly sentient artificial intelligence from the first book who loves pictures of cats and helping people make friends on the internet.Īfter spending years on the run from her abusive father, Steph is finally settling down in Minneapolis in hope of something like normal life: a long-distance relationship with her girlfriend, chatter with her CatNet friends, enrollment in a new school. Naomi Kritzer’s young-adult novel CHAOS ON CATNET (Tor Teen, 292 pp., $18.99) also depicts unusual family configurations with generosity and care. ✹ ‘Chaos’ introduces new characters and a dark mirror to CheshireCat, the friendly sentient artificial intelligence who loves pictures of cats and helping people make friends on the internet. Likewise, the sibling dynamics between the child Julie bore and the child she and Val adopted are carefully realized the faultlines along which the family fractures have nothing to do with the presence or absence of shared DNA, and everything to do with the personalities of the individuals involved.
I particularly enjoyed the mundanity of Val and Julie’s same-sex marriage, which the novel declines to address or make plot-relevant in any way all of Val and Julie’s problems are parenting problems, communication problems, not problems of justifying their relationship to the scrutiny of a bigoted society. Over the course of a decade, we watch each member of the family grapple with the consequences of widespread Pilot adoption from their perspectives. Val hates the idea, while Julie’s cautiously curious about getting one herself. At school, Val begins noticing students with small blue lights embedded in their temples they’ve chosen to have a productivity-boosting device called a Pilot installed in their brains, allowing them to achieve a state “as close to actual multitasking as a person can currently get.” Teenage David desperately wants one in order to fit in Sophie, who’s epileptic, can’t have one. Val and Julie are mothers to two children, David and Sophie Val teaches at a private high school while Julie works for the office of her district’s congressional representative. Sarah Pinsker’s WE ARE SATELLITES (Berkley, 381 pp., paper, $16) explores the far-reaching social implications of a new technology while staying deeply rooted in the day-to-day dynamics of a single family. But I was surprised to find, as I read my way through them, that they explored similar themes: adoption and child-rearing, intergenerational traumas, and characters who hunger for connection, communion and belonging so powerfully that they transform their environments, on scales ranging from the municipal to the cosmic. For this one, I looked for works I thought would be wildly different from one another: a collection of short stories in translation, a debut about a single consciousness in multiple bodies, a young-adult techno-thriller, an Antarctic ghost story. Thank you.Īnd you can contact us on Twitter for general questions too.Assembling columns is often an exercise in serendipity. Tor: Teen: a technical problem with the Website? Please send an email to: won’t be able to respond to every message personally, but we appreciate the feedback and will address each technical issue accordingly. To find out about our employment opportunities, please visit our careers page.įor review copy and interview requests only, please contact the publicity department: For all classroom and coursepack requests, please email other permission requests should be submitted via our Permission Request Form.Oftentimes publishers do not hold the rights to these images and a credit line appears next to the image or in the acknowledgement section of the book. If you are interested in using images, such as artwork or photographs contained within a work, please check a hard copy of the book before sending a request.The turnaround for a permission request can be 6-8 weeks.For information regarding UK and translation rights, please email read the general information below before submitting your request)
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