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Val and Julie just want what’s best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when teenage son David comes home one day asking for a Pilot, a new brain implant to help with school, they reluctantly agree. This is the future, after all.
Soon, Julie feels mounting pressure at work to get a Pilot to keep pace with her colleagues, leaving Val and Sophie part of the shrinking minority of people without the device.
Before long, the implications are clear, for the family and society: get a Pilot or get left behind. With government subsidies and no downside, why would anyone refuse? And how do you stop a technology once it’s everywhere? Those are the questions Sophie and her anti-Pilot movement rise up to answer, even if it puts them up against the Pilot’s powerful manufacturer and pits Sophie against the people she loves most.
I’ve read Sarah Pinsker’s short fiction as well as her debut novel and her writing is so wonderful, there’s such a great cadence to her prose. I’m very much looking forward to this new novel from her. We Are Satellites is expected May 11th, 2021.
Way Too Fantasy 
I loved ‘song for a new day’ so I’m thrilled to hear a new book is coming out. Better eat more brain food because her books make me think!
Yes exactly to both of those sentiments!
I’m super excited for this too, plus I just got approved on NetGalley so I’m even more excited!
Oooh yay! I would have requested it but I already have it preordered so I’m just gonna wait haha. Enjoy!
I hope you enjoy this one!!
Thanks, Kaya! I hope so too. 🙂
I still need to read her! Have this on my watchlist too!
I love her writing. She has a more literary bent, but she also really humanizes things. I can’t recommend her work enough.
I like the sound of this one – I like books that make me think and this sounds like one of those. I must say though – brain implants, it sounds so much like cheating doesn’t it! LOL
Lynn 😀
Sarah’s writing usually does give you some things to ponder–it’s one of the things I love about her work. She’s usually right on the cusp of things with near future sci-fi so I can’t wait to see what she’s come up with here. I know brain implants probably aren’t too far down the road, can you imagine?