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A genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World.

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.

Praise for Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep

‘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, the international best-selling author of Tender Is the Flesh

‘A master of his craft, Tremblay creates a new genre with every book he writes. 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

‘Innovative, terrifying, and deeply human. An electric and wild skewering of Silicon Valley’s takeover of the human mind and body that could only be written by Paul Tremblay. Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep will keep you up at night’ – Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe

Publisher Review

Paul Tremblay is one of the most terrifying horror writers of his generation — Joe Hill Tremblay [is] not just one of our great horror writers but one of our great fiction writers, full stop * New York Times * Paul Tremblay is Horror’s Newest Big Thing * GQ * Uncertainty is Tremblay’s stock-in-trade. Over the last decade, he has grown from hot new thing to horror icon without compromising on his uniquely inexplicable nightmares * Esquire * Paul Tremblay is unmatched in creating horror that feels at once outsized and disturbingly personal — Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea and Private Rites Tremblay turns horror inside out with characters so complex and painfully human it makes the terrible things that happen even worse — Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls Absolutely riveting. I haven’t been able to put it down — Stephen King on Survivor Song The most beautiful and heartbreaking funeral I’ve been to in a long time, The Pallbearers Club is melancholy, funny, and very cruel, but you won’t regret carrying this coffin — Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group A sinuous, mercurial novel that shifts under your very eyes like a trick of the light. This is Paul Tremblay’s most dazzling book yet, and that’s saying something. I was left breathless — Catriona Ward, bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street on The Pallbearers Club Books can have teeth. A whole mouthful of them. The Pallbearers Club has a whole lifetime of them — Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of My Heart Is a Chainsaw Paul Tremblay is a master storyteller who vividly conjures the monstrous in all its shivery forms — Mona Awad, author of Bunny and Rouge on The Beast You Are 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, the international best-selling author of Tender Is the Flesh A master of his craft, Tremblay creates a new genre with every book he writes. 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 Innovative, terrifying, and deeply human. An electric and wild skewering of Silicon Valley’s takeover of the human mind and body that could only be written by Paul Tremblay. Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep will keep you up at night — Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe Horrific, multi-layered, meta, and absolutely brilliant! * SFX * Melts your brain and scours your soul. As entertaining and pop-culture savvy as the novel can be, it’s emotionally wrenching and truly scary – you’ll never think of the phrase proof of concept the same way again. Get ready to root for Julia Flang and weep for our lost humanity — Ed Park, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed, Different Dreams