Rubik
By: Elizabeth Tan
Publisher: The Unnamed Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781944700577
Subjects: Socialmedia; Fiction; Social satire; Australian Short stories
Description: The dead aren't really gone, they persist as phone numbers, social media accounts, newsletter recipients, and as members of fan-fiction forums. Digital ghosts move and connect us: we feel we know people we have only seen online just as corporations masquerade as familiar friends. In Rubik , darkly comedic interconnected stories follow Elena Rubik, her best friend Jules Valentine, and wannabe investigative reporter April Kuan, as a viral marketing scheme's motivations become cause for concern. There are the adventures of a model turned visual artist, a voice actor primarily used for tech support, enigmatic schoolchildren, clever anime characters, and more. Deftly blending the real and imagined with biting social satire, Elizabeth Tan explores the lives of her diverse group of characters with deep empathy and insight into our contemporary world.
Table of contents: title: Rubik --; title: Every good boy deserves fruit --; title: Retcon --; title: Light --; title: Pikkoro and the multipurpose octopus --; title: T --; title: Good birds don't fly away --; title: Congratulations you may have already won --; title: U (or, that extra little something) --; title: Coca-cola birds sing sweetest in the morning --; title: This page has been left blank intentionally --; title: Everything that rises --; title: Luxury replicants --; title: Kuan x 05.