Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep with Paul Tremblay
Thu 22 Oct 2026
7:00pm at St Swithin's Church, The Paragon, Bath, BA1 5LY
Book + Ticket gives you 1 ticket with a copy of the book included, all tickets include 15% off any books purchased on the night, and author talk, and signing.
Other ways to book:
Email books@mrbsemporium.com, call 01225 331155 or pop into the shop at 14-15 John Street, Bath. BA1 2JL.
We’re thrilled to welcome author Paul Tremblay to Bath for his latest novel, Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep.
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 and The Cabin at the End of the World.
Can’t make it to the event? Order a signed and dedicated copy here.
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.
‘Philip K. Dick would be honored to read Tremblay’s novel, which, with its hypnotic prose, compels us to confront our existential horror even as it makes us laugh, excites us, moves us, and yes, makes us shudder a lot‘ – Agustina Bazterrica, author of Tender Is the Flesh
‘This ingenious novel is refreshing, hilarious, teeming with warnings of real horrors to come, and ultimately entirely human. It will be the most stressfully entertaining journey of your year‘ – Virginia Feito, author of Victorian Psycho
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 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. In 2023, Paul along with author Mona Awad, filed a lawsuit against Open AI.