Grace Chan’s *Every Version of You* explores Tao-Yi and Navin’s life in a late-21st-century Australia, where they immerse themselves in a virtual reality called Gaia, neglecting their physical bodies. As Tao-Yi’s mother clings to the real world, a new technology forces Tao-Yi to choose between a digital eternity and her authentic past.
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Grace Chan’s *Every Version of You* explores Tao-Yi and Navin’s life in a late-21st-century Australia, where they immerse themselves in a virtual reality called Gaia, neglecting their physical bodies. As Tao-Yi’s mother clings to the real world, a new technology forces Tao-Yi to choose between a digital eternity and her authentic past.
Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror, with a dash of Murakami surrealism thrown in, in this speculative literary novel about staying in love after mind-uploading into virtual reality. n late-twenty-first-century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside an immersive, consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialize and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile, their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments. Across the c...
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No sexual content depicted.
No violence or gore present.
No profanity present.
No substance use depicted.
No LGBTQIA+ representation.
No religious themes present.
No witchcraft or occult elements.
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Central themes critiquing capitalism, climate change devastation, and societal impacts of AI and immersive technology.
Themes of depression and grief related to loss and change, but no depictions of self-harm or suicide.
Systemic suffering from climate change, environmental ruin, and technological isolation.
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