Lifeform Three

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• Art & posters
  • The hardest place to escape from is paradise
  • The hardest place to escape from is paradise – 2
  • Who can teach you to be human when people have forgotten?
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  • Reading group questions
• Origins
  • A brief literary history of robots
  • A folly glimpsed while lost in the woods
  • Big Brother in your hand – the Pebble phone
  • Little Switzerland – the Surrey Hills
  • Science fiction origins: 10 questions with Chele Cooke
  • The Surrey connection, literary ancestors and horses – essay for book clubs
  • The Undercover Soundtrack – music that made Lifeform Three
  • While you look outwards to the future and space, what might be happening on our little blue-green planet? Interview at One Giant Read
• Press & reviews
  • Press
    • ‘For your summer reading list’
    • ‘Lyrically gentle, bold and disturbing – deservedly compared with Margaret Atwood and Ray Bradbury’
    • ‘Mesmerising, mystical and captivating – a richness and depth mimetic of Margaret Atwood’
  • Reviews
    • ‘A 5-star delight, a balm for a 3-book-per-week reviewer on a diet peppered with failed look-likes’
    • ‘A brave, unique voice’
    • ‘A masterpiece… will still be wowing readers in 100 years’ time’
    • ‘An allegorical tale of the evolution of social media, intrusive advertising, preference tracking, and corporate control – a great read’
    • ‘An ensouling fable in the great Bradbury tradition’
    • ‘Basically I loved it’
    • ‘Beautiful descriptive writing… felt completely real’
    • ‘Beautiful story about a non-human but human-like AI’
    • ‘Bowled over by the extraordinary writing’
    • ‘Charming, engrossing, uplifting’
    • ‘Engages from the start, never falters’
    • ‘In the great tradition of Atwood and Bradbury – highly recommended’
    • ‘Lyrical, beautifully visual… a wonderful, intimate fable’
    • ‘Marvellous, powerful, beautiful’ – Kij Johnson
    • ‘May the future rise up to meet you, and may it be friendly’
    • ‘Merging of past and present, as in Slaughterhouse 5’
    • ‘Raises questions about issues of the day, from climate change to social media’
    • ‘Really stole my heart… if you believe literary fiction is boring, read this’
    • ‘Reminded me of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, but more joyous and less tragic’
    • ‘Reminds us of what makes us human – very touching’
    • ‘SF in the purest sense – the thoughtful application of an idea’
    • ‘Something new has this way come – a unique voice rising in the literary scene’
    • ‘Tender, uplifting, hopeful’
    • ‘Thoroughly entertaining, reminiscent of the best robot writing from years gone by’
    • ‘Thought provoking and highly readable’
    • ‘Thoughtful, unique, beautiful – I recommend it’
    • ‘Wonderful… heartbreaking’
    • Haunting word-painting of dreams, of longing, of life, of love
    • Heartbreaking, thought-provoking and a damned good read
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  • Roz’s blog
  • Roz’s fiction