** Winner of the University of Sydney’s People’s Choice Award **
** Longlisted for the Stella Prize **
**Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Christina Stead Prize **
In late-21st-century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside an immersive, consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile, their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments.
Across the city, in the abandoned real world, Tao-Yi's mother remains stubbornly offline, dwindling away between hospital visits and memories of her earlier life in Malaysia.
When a new technology is developed to permanently upload a human brain to Gaia, Tao-Yi must decide what is most important: a digital future or an authentic past.
Stunning and spellbinding,
Every Version of You unpicks the ties between life and technology to ask what truly makes us human, and what in our world is worth preserving. Perfect for fans of
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin,
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
