Holophin

IT IS 2031 and the must-have gadget is the Holophin: a tiny, dolphin-shaped microprocessor which cures your worst impulses and phobias, comforts you in your grief or boredom and makes everything look much, much prettier. Hatsuka and Max are students at the esteemed Takin International School, a learning institute so magnificent it produces Holophins as a by-product of its coursework projects. The billionth device has just been sold, but when Takin's best students are stalked by a shady rival manufacturer, Holophin's monopoly, and the narrative itself, begins to unravel - with unexpected consequences. This hallucinatory and darkly funny sci-fi mystery is the debut novella by acclaimed poet Luke Kennard, a refracted meditation on identity, technology and the imagination. Published in hardback in a numbered, limited edition of 300. E-book also available.

ISBN 1908058064   Pages 112 ISBN13 9781908058065 (What's this?)   Published in London Publisher Penned in the Margins   Height (mm) 198 Imprint Penned in the Margins   Width (mm) 219 Format Hardback   Academic level General Publication date 01 Sep 2012

A sparky, image-rich novella that reboots familiar genre themes. - The Telegraph A compelling adventure in cyberindustrial espionage - Annexe Magazine Wonderful reading, imaginatively fresh, technically surprising [...] It deserves to sell millions. I haven't read so much joy since Heartsnatcher. - Gists & Piths Holophin needs a couple of hours of your time and is going to do something to your head. - Edward Field Like David Mitchell, [Kennard] seems to have assimilated a wide range of influences in such a way that whatever he lays out, he has considered all the angles. In this case, what starts as a tight, imaginative flight of fancy, soon collapses in on itself. - Adrian Slatcher

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