{"id":3381,"date":"2013-03-28T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2017-12-02T23:36:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T23:36:30","slug":"download-luke-kennards-mind-blowing-sci-fi-novella-absolutely-free-one-week-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/03\/download-luke-kennards-mind-blowing-sci-fi-novella-absolutely-free-one-week-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Download Luke Kennard&#8217;s mind-blowing sci-fi novella absolutely free (one week only)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is 2031 and the must-have gadget is the Holophin: a tiny,   dolphin-shaped microprocessor which cures your worst impulses and phobias,   comforts you in your grief or boredom and makes everything look much, much prettier.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Holophin<\/em> is the debut novella by award-winning British poet Luke Kennard \u2013 originally released in September 2012 as a limited edition hardback (now completely sold out).<\/p>\n<p>But from <strong>Monday 1 April to Friday 5 April<\/strong>, <em>Holophin<\/em> will be available to download<strong> totally free<\/strong> from Amazon Kindle. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Holophin-ebook\/dp\/B00AITXR1C\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1354786510&amp;sr=8-2\">Just click here to claim your free digital copy!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The heroes of the story are Hatsuka and Max, students at the esteemed Takin International School, a learning institute so magnificent it produces Holophins as a by-product of its coursework projects. The billionth device has just been sold, but when Takin\u2019s best students are stalked by a shady rival manufacturer, Holophin\u2019s monopoly, and the narrative itself, begins to unravel \u2013 with unexpected consequences.<\/p>\n<p><em>Holophin<\/em> is a meditation on identity and the imagination, but also offers a veiled satire of certain consumer technology brands. As Luke Kennard says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI wanted to write a story about technology and memory, but I wanted to focus on the marketing side, the kind of thing you see played out between Apple and Samsung, and the way we take sides, as if either is any more evil\/ethical. But it\u2019s not surprising that we try to bring in a moral dimension, because when you think about how long we all spend fiddling obsessively with their devices, they\u2019re kind of battling for our souls: our means of experiencing the world, of communicating with one another. So, what if there were rival companies offering to make you a soul \u2013 how would you choose?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Holophin-ebook\/dp\/B00AITXR1C\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1354786510&amp;sr=8-2\">Download Holophin FREE for Amazon Kindle (1 &#8211; 5 April)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/holophin\/\">Find out more about <em>Holophin<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is 2031 and the must-have gadget is the Holophin: a tiny, dolphin-shaped microprocessor which cures your worst impulses and phobias, comforts you in your grief or boredom and makes everything look much, much prettier.\u201d Holophin is the debut novella by award-winning British poet Luke Kennard \u2013 originally released in September 2012 as a limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}