From New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, In the Lives of Puppets is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio tale, inviting you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
‘A deeply stirring journey through a world of extraordinary robots’ – Chuck Tingle, Hugo-shortlisted author of Camp Damascus
*A New York Times, Sunday Times and Indie Bestseller* *Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction*
In a small home, built into the branches of a tree, live a human named Victor and three robots. These are a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, a small vacuum desperate for love and attention, and a fatherly inventor-android named Giovanni Lawson. Together they’re a family, hidden and safe.
Then Vic salvages an unfamiliar android labelled ‘HAP’. He learns that Hap and Gio share a dark past, where they hunted humans. And Hap unwittingly gives away Gio’s location. Before they know it, robots from Gio’s former life arrive – to capture and return the android to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams.
The rest of the unconventional family must travel across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommissioning. Or worse, reprogramming. Along the way, Vic must decide if he can handle his feelings for Hap – even if they come with strings attached.
Inspired by Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful standalone fantasy adventure from the author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
In the Lives of Puppets was a No. 1 Sunday Times HB Bestseller w/c 24/04/2023.
© 2023 Tor (Lydbog): 9781529088069
Release date
Lydbog: 25. april 2023
From New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, In the Lives of Puppets is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio tale, inviting you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
‘A deeply stirring journey through a world of extraordinary robots’ – Chuck Tingle, Hugo-shortlisted author of Camp Damascus
*A New York Times, Sunday Times and Indie Bestseller* *Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction*
In a small home, built into the branches of a tree, live a human named Victor and three robots. These are a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, a small vacuum desperate for love and attention, and a fatherly inventor-android named Giovanni Lawson. Together they’re a family, hidden and safe.
Then Vic salvages an unfamiliar android labelled ‘HAP’. He learns that Hap and Gio share a dark past, where they hunted humans. And Hap unwittingly gives away Gio’s location. Before they know it, robots from Gio’s former life arrive – to capture and return the android to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams.
The rest of the unconventional family must travel across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommissioning. Or worse, reprogramming. Along the way, Vic must decide if he can handle his feelings for Hap – even if they come with strings attached.
Inspired by Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful standalone fantasy adventure from the author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
In the Lives of Puppets was a No. 1 Sunday Times HB Bestseller w/c 24/04/2023.
© 2023 Tor (Lydbog): 9781529088069
Release date
Lydbog: 25. april 2023
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Stine
29. dec. 2023
Jeg har hørt den 4 gange på 2 mdr.! Så god er den.
Sisse-Sofie Koefoed
20. jun. 2023
TJ Klune i et sci-fi scenarie er virkelig godt. Tankevækkende og dejlig og meget “klunesk” bog
Anette
20. maj 2023
Jeg er ikke nær så vild med denne bog, som jeg var med TJ Klunes sidste to. Karaktergalleriet og dialogen er som altid fuldstændig fabelagtig og særpræget, men der mangler noget af den udefinerbare 'magi' i fortællingen som der plejer at være. Det er lidt som om historien gentager sig unødigt uden synderlige overraskelser, hvilke gør at den føles mere langtrukken end nødvendigt. Ideen sant universet er dog spændende og jeg kan anbefale at læse bogen hvis man er vild med skæve eksistenser, små-morbid humor og utraditionel kærlighed ;)
Kathrine
12. jan. 2024
Hjertevarm, magisk sjov og feel good på den gode måde!
Sidse
23. feb. 2024
What an absolute joy, but also sad at times
Rikke
11. jun. 2023
Sååå god
Nat
2. jun. 2023
Lovely book about love and what it means to be human 💜
Sandra
4. jun. 2023
Desværre ikke nær så god som forfatterens andre bøger. Karaktererne er sjove, men historien er simpelthen ikke fyldig nok, og maskinernes “menneskelighed” virker forceret og til tider utroværdig.
Lasse
5. jun. 2023
Ligesom alle andre TJ Klune vil jeg altid se frem til genbesøg hans bøger! Glæder mig allerede til den her!
Kristine
9. jun. 2023
Meget meget beskrivende og meget meget langtrukken i forhold til de to andre bøger
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