A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo café, sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever ... at a time w. you\'ll drown in it\' Lisa Bradley \' A life-affirming, epic book about what it is to be human: to live, to dream, to hope, to love ...
Vivid plot and irresistible characters and a real tug at the soul ...
A wonderful and enlightening trip\' The Sun \' Cyberpunk meets bildungsroman - a real joy\' Oscar de Muriel \' Exquisite world-building, this book had me invested from the very first page. - - - - - - - - - - - - - \' Poetically written, every word of this adventure leaps off the page with passion.
A secret that reveals that this world is anything ordinary - and it\'s about to change forever...
A secret that will take them from the neon streets of Tokyo to Hiroshima\'s tragic past to the snowy mountains of Nagano.
But Neotnia hides a secret of her own - a secret that will turn John\'s unhappy life upside down.
A café run by a disgraced sumo wrestler, where a peculiar dog with a spherical head lives, alongside its owner, enigmatic waitress Neotnia...
But everything starts to change for him when he enters a tiny café on a cold Tokyo night.
Except for seventeen-year-old John, a tech prodigy from a damaged family, who hides a deeply personal secret.
Everything is as it should be...
People get up, work, and have dinner.
There are two superpowers and a digital Cold War, but all conflicts are safely oceans away.
An ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops.
It\'s our world, but decades into the future... wonderful, insightful and thoughtful\' James Oswald - - - - - - - - - - - - - This world is anything but ordinary, and it\'s about to change forever... to let us explore a world of robots and deepfakes that\'s just unfamiliar enough to be exotic\' SFX Magazine Book of the Month \' A fascinating exploration of what it means to be human in a world where everything can be faked ... \' Set against a tech heavy backdrop Beautiful Shining People blooms into an emotional and soulful tale that reckons with the isolation we can all feel as outsiders\' SciFi Now Book of the Month \' That Beautiful Shining People isn\'t just a slipstream novel with pretensions to being literature is in great part down to the deftness and tenderness with which Grothaus draws his central relationship ... a captivating, masterful novel with an extraordinary mystery at its heart...
A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo café, sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever ..
