Washington Examiner
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Colin Winnette's novel, "Users Users," was published last month by Penguin Random House imprint Soft Skull Press.
It's about a project manager at a Facebook-like tech corporation who invents a world-changing virtual reality product called “the Egg’s” Winnette trades in blood-and-mud-caked frontier Gothic for the smooth, button-free surfaces of Silicon Valley.
The book never quite reaches fever pitch as a techno-thriller, nor does it move satisfyingly beyond pastiche in its domestic drama.
The juxtaposition of its folktale-dark tone with the gleaming, upper-class world of consumer technology it sends up leaves a lasting impression.
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