Qualityland
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Romanelli, Jamie Searle translator.
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East Flagstaff Public Library - Fiction
S-F KLING, MARC-UWE
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S-F KLING, MARC-UWE
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Main Flagstaff Public Library - Sci-Fi & Fantasy
S-F KLING, MARC-UWE
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S-F KLING, MARC-UWE
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339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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First published in Germany in 2017 by Ullstein Verlag. First English translation published in Great Britain in 2020 by Orion Fiction.
Description
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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kling, M., & Romanelli, J. S. (2020). Qualityland (First Grand Central Publishing edition.). Grand Central Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kling, Marc-Uwe and Jamie Searle Romanelli. 2020. Qualityland. Grand Central Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kling, Marc-Uwe and Jamie Searle Romanelli. Qualityland Grand Central Publishing, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kling, Marc-Uwe,, and Jamie Searle Romanelli. Qualityland First Grand Central Publishing edition., Grand Central Publishing, 2020.
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