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“A masterpiece….For Emma is an extraordinary novel; a treatise of love and loss, the terror of the modern world and the sprung, high-tech trap humanity has set for itself. This would be more than enough: awe inspiringly, it’s also a page-turning thriller, and it confirms its author as the eminent fiction writer of our times.”

 

Irvine Welsh

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“Absolutely wonderful…riveting, sad, mad and terrifying.”

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Terry Gilliam

 

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“For Emma is as disturbing as it is convincing, a tale of love and guilt and grief, and an apt tract for our chaotic times.”

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John Banville

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“Ewan Morrison’s harrowing and beautiful new novel, For Emma, is an early warning system for the future. In that way, a worthy successor to Easy Travel to Other Planets, Neuromancer, and, of course, Brave New World.”

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David Shields - Author - Reality Hunger

 

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“For Emma is a brilliant book that you will devour. Its compelling exploration of love, loss, and the haunting power of technology and morality makes it a must-read, delving into the highly relevant and intriguing intersection of humanity and advanced AI.”

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Bruna Papandrea - Producer - Gone Girl, Big Little Lies

 

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"Heartbreaking and harrowing, this is a suspenseful journey into a family's tortured past and its nightmarish present.  Ewan Morrison's attention to the details of parental love and responsibility make this an unforgettable book." 

      

Atom Egoyan –  Director – The Sweet Hereafter

 

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“Harrowing, tragic and moving.”

Ian Rankin

 

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'A devastatingly accomplished and cinema-literate nightmare of culture-induced and morally bereft psychotic breakdown: the state in which we are all now registered, observed and disenfranchised. The poetry of paranoia, here, is so compelling, that we are forced to conclude that the very act of tale-telling, authorship, is being dictated by a terrifying otherness. Now read on. Please.’

 

Iain Sinclair – writer, filmmaker & RLS fellow

 

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“This book scared me like no horror story ever has, because its monster is right in front of us, right now, eating us slowly while we cheer.”
 

Isaac Marion. Author Warm Bodies.

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“For Emma is an astonishing, bold novel… heart-rending, but also complex, visceral and angry… unlike anything I have read before – a sympathetic, yet abject account of violence. Morrison’s eyes are on the horizon. This is the novel for our times, a mordant, coruscating yet exhilarating account of where we will be, sooner than we think.”

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Nicholas Blincoe

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“Hold onto your seats for a cracking good ending, which I did not see coming, yet which I felt I should have seen coming—the best kind.”

 

Lionel Shriver

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"Josh Cartwright, the beguiling protagonist of FOR EMMA, is reminiscent, with all his paranoia and eccentricities, of the tortured heroes of Philip K. Dick. But this tale should not be categorized as speculative. Rather, this brilliant and frightening novel is more like science fact than science fiction. So some day soon when we're all backing up our brains and things get even crazier in our mad world, we'll remember that Ewan Morrison tried to warn us."

 

Jonathan Ames, author of A Man Named Doll

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“A grieving father becomes an avenging angel. A great novel which captures and questions our times. I loved this cinematic and compassionate book.”

 

Mark Cousins – filmmaker

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“As pacy and compelling as a thriller, For Emma is also a skilful exploration of that area where our genuine fears about the global reach of tech giants meet a natural tendency to paranoia. How worried should we be about the rapid advances in artificial intelligence currently underway?  Emma’s story feels compelling, moving and terrifyingly plausible.”

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'For Emma is a haunting work, resonating and echoing for a long time after reading. Although concerned with AI, it is a human book, both grief soaked and love filled. In For Emma, Morrison has created a true masterpiece, one that endures as testament to his concern for our endangered humanity.' 

 

Ali Millar. Author - The Last Days

 

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‘A stunning book. Deeply touching. A beautifully crafted page-turner. I love how we're sucked into a dark eloquent vortex, part gothic/sci-fi/ and detective novel, asking essential questions about AI, but also what it means to love and to stay alive. It has stayed with me deeply, particularly those passages about the father and daughter, the intimacy of grief. As relevant as Frankenstein.’

 

 Susanna Crossman. Author - Home is Where We Start

 

"A brilliant, breath-taking book. For Emma is at once a gripping techno-thriller, a chillingly plausible near-future nightmare, and a moving meditation on loss and grief. Morrison expertly weaves unreliable first person narratives together with scenes of nail-biting tension, sudden violence, dream-like paranoid diatribes, and redacted horrors in blacked out text. Without flinching, he never lets go of the humanity we stand to lose as technology accelerates. Reading For Emma is a terrifying glimpse into a dystopia so close, we can't avoid it.”

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Bram E. Gieben - Strange Exiles Podcast

 

 

“A worryingly convincing vision of our imminent present. Ewan Morrison is our Michel Houellebecq.”

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Prof. Gavin Bowd. Translator of Houellebecq

 

 

“Haunting, eerie, and kinetic, For Emma is equal parts sci-fi, dystopia, family tragedy and portrait of an unravelling mind.”

                                                                   

 Mary Harrington

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"Thrilling, unsettling, and fundamentally humane, For Emma is an explosively timely novel. A shifting metafiction of unreliable narration that knowingly calls to mind the gothic horror of Stevenson and Hogg, while relentlessly fixated on the anxieties of our current social age. A disturbing and unflinching glimpse into disillusionment and conspiracy, and a techno-dystopian warning call about the terrors less of the future, than of the now."

 

Kieran Hurley, Playwright

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“If there is a braver novelist in Scotland than Ewan Morrison I don’t know who it is."

 

James Robertson

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“Just as Ewan Morrison was ahead of the field with 

pandemic fiction and novels about ideological capture, so he is the pioneer of AI literature in Scotland. Terrifying, engrossing, masterful. The most inventive and original writer we have.”

Alex Linklater – Journalist

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“For Emma is a gripping novel of a near future that is almost upon us, and that this dire warning seeks to prevent. Here's hoping.”

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Ken MacLeod – Award winning sci-fi writer

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“A beautiful, intense, challenging, scary and very, very timely book.”

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J.T Leroy/Laura Albert

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