Out There

By Kate Folk,

Book cover of Out There: Stories

Book description

'Extraordinary . . . Folk is a dazzling talent' Karen Joy Fowler

'Wonderfully weird' Daily Mail

A woman uses dating apps to find a partner, despite the threat posed by 'blots', artificial men more interested in stealing data than dating. A sculptor, trapped in a skyscraper restaurant when a violent…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Out There as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The eerie forces in Folk’s debut story collection aren’t so much mystical as they are technological.

Each story in this book could be its own episode of Black Mirror, and readers come away understanding how the messiest human impulses are eternal, no matter the advances we make as a society.

Folk’s characters are people trying (and often failing) to find love, meaning, and purpose while their lives are marked by encounters with artificial intelligence and imminent apocalypse. 

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