Would you leave a world wilting under a deadly sun for a digital utopia?
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Every Version of You
Grace Chan (Verve Books (UK, out now; US, 23 September))
Science fiction that features characters who spend more time in virtual reality than in real life, whether via electrodes stuck into the backs of their necks or some kind of gloop-filled tank, isn’t exactly a new thing.
In fact, picking up Grace Chan’s Every Version of You, I worried that the premise of the novel – some young people in the future having to decide whether to permanently…
