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QualityLand
- Title
- QualityLand / Marc-Uwe Kling ; translated from the German into English by Jamie Lee Searle.
- Author
- Kling, Marc-Uwe
- Publication
- New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020.
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-5971 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Romanelli, Jamie Searle
- Description
- 339 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently deliver to your doorstep before you even order it. In QualityCity, Peter Jobless is a machine scrapper who can't quite bring himself to destroy the imperfect machines sent his way, and has become the unwitting leader of a band of robotic misfits hidden in his home and workplace. One day, Peter receives a product from TheShop that he absolutely, positively knows he does not want, and which he decides, at great personal cost, to return. The only problem: doing so means proving the perfect algorithm of TheShop wrong, calling into question the very foundations of QualityLand itself. Qualityland, Marc-Uwe Kling's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly clever, illuminating satire in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and George Orwell that offers a visionary, frightening, and all-too funny glimpse at a near future we may be hurtling toward faster than it's at all comfortable to admit. So why delay any longer? TheShop already knows you're going to love this book. You may as well head to the cash register, crack the covers, and see why that is for yourself.
- Uniform Title
- Qualityland. English
- Alternative Title
- Qualityland.
- Quality Land
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Dystopian fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- First published in Germany in 2017 by Ullstein Verlag. First English translation published in Great Britain in 2020 by Orion Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-5971
- ISBN
- 9781538732960
- 1538732963
- 9781538732984 (canceled/invalid)
- 153873298X (canceled/invalid)
- 9781538732977 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019951938
- OCLC
- 1133275570
- Author
- Kling, Marc-Uwe, author.
- Title
- QualityLand / Marc-Uwe Kling ; translated from the German into English by Jamie Lee Searle.
- Publisher
- New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First Grand Central Publishing edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Romanelli, Jamie Searle, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-5971