Matthew De Abaitua’s Arthur C Clarke nominated The Red Men will be released in the US and Canada by Angry Robot, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of its publication in the UK. Release date for the novel is set to November 2017.
The Red Men was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award in 2014. It has been adapted into a short film by Shynola (who have created music videos for Coldplay, Hot Chip and many others), which you can view here:
Dr. Easy from Shynola on Vimeo.
Matthew De Abaitua: “The Red Men is a novel that acquired reputation among British readers and technologists for being prescient about digital and social media but also about the day-to-day quality of life in an accelerating time. Whatever claims the novel makes for my own prescience, one thing I am sure of is that I never expected the novel would still be thriving on its tenth anniversary. The first American edition will be published by Angry Robot, which thrills me as they have made a success of my other two novels IF THEN and The Destructives in America. For the first time American readers can enjoy the strange trip of this trilogy, a dream about artificial intelligence and what it might decide to do to us.”
Marc Gascoinge, Angry Robot MD: “Matthew De Abaitua’s writing is among the most incredibly intelligent, weird and wonderful out there. We’re delighted to be able to bring The Red Men across the pond, so that fans can delight in all three novels together for the first time. It’s almost enough to make a robot cry.”
Praise for The Red Men: ‘Sumptuously written, with prose that glitters with a dark lustre like a Damien Hirst fly collage. intricately plotted, and a satirical point as sharp and and accurate as the scalpel of a brain surgeon: De Abaitua operates on the smiling face of the present to reveal the grimacing skull of the future.’ – Will Self
“The Red Men is a breathtaking novel of ideas, and a sharp antidote to those shiny magical “upload your consciousness into cyberspace wheee” novels…” – Charlie Jane Anders
