Uncertain Grace

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Pub Date 15 May 2018 | Archive Date 07 Aug 2017
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Description

Told in five parts, the novel traces the life story of Liv, from the beginning of her sexual life, to eventual transcendence of her own body. Some time in the near future, university lecturer Caspar receives a gift from a former student called Liv: a memory stick containing a virtual narrative. Hooked up to a virtual reality bodysuit, he becomes immersed in the experience of their past sexual relationship. But this time it is her experience. What was for him an erotic interlude, resonant with the thrill of seduction, was very different for her—and when he has lived it, he will understand how. Later... A convicted paedophile recruited to Liv’s experiment in collective consciousness discovers a way to escape from his own desolation. A synthetic boy, designed by Liv’s team to ‘love’ men who desire adolescents, begins to question the terms of his existence. L, in transition to a state beyond gender, befriends Liv, in transition to a state beyond age. Liv herself has finally transcended the corporeal. But there is still the problem of love.

Told in five parts, the novel traces the life story of Liv, from the beginning of her sexual life, to eventual transcendence of her own body. Some time in the near future, university lecturer Caspar...


Advance Praise

‘It’s a rare book that seems to drift like smoke away from the printed page to rewrite the physical world…[Kneen] wants us to strip naked and be transformed.’—Melbourne Review of Books


‘A highly provocative read that masterfully offers thoughtful speculation on the future of technology, memory and sexuality.’—Books+Publishing


‘This novel questions what it will mean to be human when we are able to be more than human—to be plural, genderless, or living the experiences of someone else through a digital narrative. With An Uncertain Grace, Kneen has given us something that is at once intensely affecting, entertaining, and hugely fascinating.’—Readings


‘Folding sensitive threads of erotica into mind-bending speculative fiction, Krissy Kneen’s latest novel is an ambitious genre hybrid that addresses both morality and mortality from unique vantage points.’—The Australian


‘Such fantastical feats of Kneen’s fertile imagination are not only bedded in a convincing future reality of extreme weather and drastically diminished species but blessed with engagingly lively and varied characters. Their circumstances, typified by the unusual fluidity of the personal pronouns, are often deeply and inventively strange, yet utterly convincing.’—SA Weekend


‘Highly unusual, very ambitious…but I think Krissy Kneen achieves it.’—Radio New Zealand


‘One of Australia’s most gifted storytellers…A reasoned, emotive, and highly compelling exploration of what it means to be human, and the humanity of love, desire, and sex.’—Hush Hush Biz

‘A story in which science offers creepy solutions for unmanageable problems…A beautiful, dark read.’—Listener

‘Kneen’s imaginative leap towards a transhuman world is endlessly curious and inventive, provocative and inspiring.’—Sydney Morning Herald

‘One of the most radical and insightful writers working in Australian letters today…Just read this. You won’t regret it.’—Overland


‘Haunting and wonderful.’—My Cup and Chaucer


‘It’s a rare book that seems to drift like smoke away from the printed page to rewrite the physical world…[Kneen] wants us to strip naked and be transformed.’—Melbourne Review of Books


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