It is scary how much it feels like near future and how easy it would be to reach this point, if everyone is tracked then the guilty party of any crime is always going to be found. Technology is the perfect alibi and because it’s part of the person it is infallible....I really enjoyed this book, it kept me reading and guessing. The world was scary because it’s so easy to see how our current society could end up at this point; purely outcome focused and controlling it’s citizens for the ‘greater good’.
I was happy to see it’s the first book in the series and I look forward to seeing how it…
Rating: 5/5☆
Call me a wuss, but Proximity scared the living heck out of me. This isn’t a horror novel – it’s a techno thriller, so you may be asking yourself why this scared me so much. Part of it is that Jem Tugwell’s writing is so absorbing, I was transported into the story. The other reason this is so scary? Because we are so attached to technology right now that the implant, iMe, is something that is totally realistic.I can’t wait to continue on in the series. Highly recommended!
Proximity Shortlisted for Bert's Books Book of the Year 2019
Rating: 5/5
Proximity features as part of Jade's PhD research at The University of Hull for her thesis entitled "Surveillance Culture and the Speculative Imagination: An Analysis of Social Sorting in Contemporary Critical Dystopian Fiction".
In his debut novel, Jem Tugwell combines the genres of crime fiction and science fiction in order to explore the relationship between the physical human body and its data double in a future where UK citizens are monitored at all times by the government and a technology company. The disappearance of a woman exposes flaws in the supposedly infallible…
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Tugwell's first novel is set in a future in which embedded technology makes it possible for people to commit crimes undetected. But the somebody commits a murder against the odds and DI Clive Lussac has to relearn how to track down a killer. A vision of the future that both chills and entertains.