A razor-sharp and deeply human satire of data-mining, automation, marketing, finance, and universal basic income, Sensation Machines is a virtuoso rendering of a future that's nearly upon us.
Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of their daughter's stillbirth. Michael, a Wall Street trader, has secretly lost the couple's life savings. Wendy, a digital marketing strategist, has been hired onto a data mining project, whose mysterious owner has ambitions to reshape America's social and political landscapes. When Michael's best friend is murdered, the evidence leads back to Wendy's client, setting off a dangerous chain of events that will profoundly change the couple-and the country.
Adam Wilson inhabits the perspectives of the Wall Street bros, the marketing mad men, the Silicon Valley sociopaths-and uncomfortably humanizes them, while considering the ways everyone is complicit in the consequences of late capitalism. A novel of big ideas and intricate plotting, Sensation Machines is a brilliantly observed human drama.
