DEAD BUT DREAMING: Paul Tremblay in conversation with Neil McRobert

We couldn't be more thrilled to welcome Paul Tremblay to Blackwell's to hear him discuss his latest novel with Talking Scared pod's Neil McRobert. Author of A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World and Horror Movie, to name a few, Paul will be discussing his latest novel Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep.

Doors: 6.30pm. Starts: 6.45pm.

Tickets are £5 or admission is free when purchasing a Book & Ticket option of a copy of the book in store ahead of the event.

About the book:

Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn't like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world's largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can't refuse. One sham interview later, she's offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state from California to the East Coast. But he's not dead dead: he has an AI mind implanted in his head…
Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which he's trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn't remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He can't remember.
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady, terrifying genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today, exploring the 'I' in AI.

About the author:

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the New York Times bestselling author of Another, Horror Movie: A Novel, The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film “Knock at the Cabin.” Two short stories, "The Last Conversation" and "In Bloom," were Amazon Original shorts. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and numerous "year's best" anthologies. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts with his family and has a master's degree in Mathematics.

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