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Jem Calder's Reward System is a set of ultra-contemporary and electrifyingly fresh fictions about a generation on the cusp, enmeshed in Zooms and lockdowns, loneliness and love.
Audacious fictions for a generation wondering: What now?
Audacious fictions for a generation wondering: What now?
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"Brilliant, compelling, and defiantly authentic . . . the young British debut author masters a kind of maximal minimalism, piling on details and allusions while stripping away illusions . . . [Calder] savvily marshals buzzy facts and newsy concepts in service of an atmosphere rich with the irony (and pollutants) of modern living."
Nathan Deuel, The Los Angeles Times
"The infusion of technical jargon throughout Mr. Calder's balanced prose has an eerie effect on the stories, as though the algorithm had begun colonizing the writing as well . . . Generational zombification, in Mr. Calder's penetrating depiction, has been a largely smooth and painless process, and there is no discontent brought about by the smartphone that the smartphone can't also distract us fr
Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
"Jem Calder's excellent debut . . . can be funny and wrenching, often on the same page."
Michael Schaub, NPR