Summer Book Club

There’s a new book club in town and you’re invited!

Join the indyreads Summer Book Club and read along with thousands of people across the state.

This year's feature book is Every Version of You, a fascinating speculative fiction novel by Australian author Grace Chan.

Published by Affirm Press, Every Version of You is described as Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go meets Netflix’s Black Mirror, with a dash of Murakami surrealism thrown in.

Every Version of You

In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise, and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments. Across the city, in the abandoned ‘real’ world, Tao-Yi’s mother remains stubbornly offline, preferring instead to indulge in memories of her life in Malaysia.

When a new technology is developed to permanently upload a human brain to Gaia, Tao-Yi must decide what is most important: a digital future, or an authentic past.

Meet author Grace Chan live online

Meet Grace Chan online on Wednesday 14 February at 6.30pm.

Participants will have the opportunity to ask Grace questions via chat at the end of the event.

Register online for your free link.

Start reading

Download Every Version of You as an eBook or audiobook from indyreads for FREE with your library card (available now as an unlimited access title - no holds, no waiting).

Or reserve a copy from our catalogue.