Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie. Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-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--one with proprietary AI implanted in his head--from California to the East Coast. To sum up in Julia's own words: "You want me to remote control this dead dude across the country." In a word, yes. But he's not dead dead. 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. Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls "Bernie" from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he was--and who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today.
Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie. Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-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--one with proprietary AI implanted in his head--from California to the East Coast. To sum up in Julia's own words: "You want me to remote control this dead dude across the country." In a word, yes. But he's not dead dead. 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. Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls "Bernie" from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he was--and who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today.
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Blending psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantasy, the novel A Head Full of Ghosts brought widespread attention to modern possession narratives by exploring family trauma, media exploitation, and narrative ambiguity. Author Paul Tremblay is a New York Times bestselling writer whose fiction spans horror, dark fantasy, mystery, and science fiction.
Born on June 30, 1971, in Aurora, Colorado, Paul Gaetan Tremblay grew up in New England. He attended Providence College for his undergraduate studies and earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Vermont. Before writing full-time, Tremblay established a long-time career as a high school mathematics teacher outside of Boston, Massachusetts, where he continues to live with his family. He began publishing short fiction in 2000 and launched his novel-length career with the hardboiled crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland.
Over his career, Tremblay has received the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards, and has served as a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards. His major standalone novels include A Head Full of Ghosts, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, The Cabin at the End of the World, Survivor Song, The Pallbearers Club, The Beast You Are, Horror Movie: A Novel, and Another. His 2018 thriller The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted by Universal Pictures into the feature film Knock at the Cabin. Tremblay has also published short fiction collections including Growing Things and Other Stories and She Said Destroy, alongside standalone short fiction such as the Amazon Original stories "The Last Conversation" and "In Bloom," and works like Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep. His essays and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year's best anthologies.
Tremblay's writing is defined by grounded characterization, psychological realism, and a deliberate destabilization of classic horror tropes. Rather than relying solely on supernatural monsters, his narratives frequently utilize unreliable narrators, metafictional frameworks, and ambiguous occurrences that leave supernatural interpretations open to debate. His work explores modern anxieties, pandemic crises, working-class realities, domestic vulnerability, and the emotional complexities of friendship and family.
8 books in catalog
Blending psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantasy, the novel A Head Full of Ghosts brought widespread attention to modern possession narratives by exploring family trauma, media exploitation, and narrative ambiguity. Author Paul Tremblay is a New York Times bestselling writer whose fiction spans horror, dark fantasy, mystery, and science fiction.
Born on June 30, 1971, in Aurora, Colorado, Paul Gaetan Tremblay grew up in New England. He attended Providence College for his undergraduate studies and earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Vermont. Before writing full-time, Tremblay established a long-time career as a high school mathematics teacher outside of Boston, Massachusetts, where he continues to live with his family. He began publishing short fiction in 2000 and launched his novel-length career with the hardboiled crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland.
Over his career, Tremblay has received the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards, and has served as a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards. His major standalone novels include A Head Full of Ghosts, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, The Cabin at the End of the World, Survivor Song, The Pallbearers Club, The Beast You Are, Horror Movie: A Novel, and Another. His 2018 thriller The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted by Universal Pictures into the feature film Knock at the Cabin. Tremblay has also published short fiction collections including Growing Things and Other Stories and She Said Destroy, alongside standalone short fiction such as the Amazon Original stories "The Last Conversation" and "In Bloom," and works like Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep. His essays and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year's best anthologies.
Tremblay's writing is defined by grounded characterization, psychological realism, and a deliberate destabilization of classic horror tropes. Rather than relying solely on supernatural monsters, his narratives frequently utilize unreliable narrators, metafictional frameworks, and ambiguous occurrences that leave supernatural interpretations open to debate. His work explores modern anxieties, pandemic crises, working-class realities, domestic vulnerability, and the emotional complexities of friendship and family.
