This Machine Feeds

This Machine Feeds is a reminder that fiction, at its best, can render the world such that it can be properly seen – in all of its deranging horror and terrifying possibilities. A work of serious political and ethical range that captures the vertiginous, unnerving feeling that comes with being alive now – forced to bear witness to the unholy end-times alliance of messianic militarism, rapacious necrocapitalism and technofascist idiocy. (It’s also quite a fun book).

Keiran Goddard, author of I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

This Machine Feeds is a reminder that fiction, at its best, can render the world such that it can be properly seen – in all of its deranging horror and terrifying possibilities. A work of serious political and ethical range that captures the vertiginous, unnerving feeling that comes with being alive now – forced to bear witness to the unholy end-times alliance of messianic militarism, rapacious necrocapitalism and technofascist idiocy. (It’s also quite a fun book).

Keiran Goddard, author of I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

Shockingly good, in the way the world decayed and spread its roots throughout the ephemeral and ethereal.

Misha Honcharenko, author of Trap Unfolds Me Greedily

Shockingly good, in the way the world decayed and spread its roots throughout the ephemeral and ethereal.

Misha Honcharenko, author of Trap Unfolds Me Greedily

In This Machine Feeds, Heather Parry has created both a mirror to the world we live in and a window into the future that is fast on its way here. With her brilliant prose and envious handle of tone, Parry asks: What exactly is wrong with humanity? And the answer seems to be: Everything. Incisive, probing, acidic.

Kasim Ali, author of Good Intentions

In This Machine Feeds, Heather Parry has created both a mirror to the world we live in and a window into the future that is fast on its way here. With her brilliant prose and envious handle of tone, Parry asks: What exactly is wrong with humanity? And the answer seems to be: Everything. Incisive, probing, acidic.

Kasim Ali, author of Good Intentions

I loved Heather’s dazzling This Machine Feeds. Utterly original, tremendously thought-provoking and full of mischief. I was put in mind of Kurt Vonnegut at his most daring, brought bang up to date.

Sean Lusk, author of No Place for Us

I loved Heather’s dazzling This Machine Feeds. Utterly original, tremendously thought-provoking and full of mischief. I was put in mind of Kurt Vonnegut at his most daring, brought bang up to date.

Sean Lusk, author of No Place for Us

This Machine Feeds is everything I've come to expect from Heather Parry: dark and twisty, occasionally twisted, irreverent and unrelentingly playful. It’s peppered with characters and scenarios so unlike anything I've read before that they're now hanging out rent-free in my brain. Heather Parry has an uncanny talent for peeling the lid off society to reveal the sinister mechanisms beneath. An important voice we should all be listening to.

Jan Carson, author of The Raptures

This Machine Feeds is everything I've come to expect from Heather Parry: dark and twisty, occasionally twisted, irreverent and unrelentingly playful. It’s peppered with characters and scenarios so unlike anything I've read before that they're now hanging out rent-free in my brain. Heather Parry has an uncanny talent for peeling the lid off society to reveal the sinister mechanisms beneath. An important voice we should all be listening to.

Jan Carson, author of The Raptures

A ferocious critique of a culture stagnating in the wake of unbridled technological advancement – This Machine Feeds is incisive, sickening and darkly comic. Parry reasserts the importance of art at a time when we seem to be forgetting it.

Callum McSorley, author of Squeaky Clean

A ferocious critique of a culture stagnating in the wake of unbridled technological advancement – This Machine Feeds is incisive, sickening and darkly comic. Parry reasserts the importance of art at a time when we seem to be forgetting it.

Callum McSorley, author of Squeaky Clean

Heather Parry is innovating a new fiction for the twenty-first century. This Machine Feeds explores the nebulous connections between tech, power, politics and art with virtuoso ease. An existentially necessary read for our times.

Gab Torr, author of Hard Place

Heather Parry is innovating a new fiction for the twenty-first century. This Machine Feeds explores the nebulous connections between tech, power, politics and art with virtuoso ease. An existentially necessary read for our times.

Gab Torr, author of Hard Place

How does Heather Parry make the intellectual so visceral? I am in awe. We may be hurtling towards a corrupted future, but This Machine Feeds is a timely reminder that it takes a human to make art this alive. Equal parts nightmarish and necessary, I came away wanting to change the world.

Jane Flett, author of Welcome to the Chaoskampf

How does Heather Parry make the intellectual so visceral? I am in awe. We may be hurtling towards a corrupted future, but This Machine Feeds is a timely reminder that it takes a human to make art this alive. Equal parts nightmarish and necessary, I came away wanting to change the world.

Jane Flett, author of Welcome to the Chaoskampf

Perfect for fans of Black Mirror, This Machine Feeds presents an all-too-real future, where technology deceives and controls us, reminding readers there is no truth without art. Parry remains a surprising and eclectic talent.

Amy Twigg, author of Spoilt Creatures

Perfect for fans of Black Mirror, This Machine Feeds presents an all-too-real future, where technology deceives and controls us, reminding readers there is no truth without art. Parry remains a surprising and eclectic talent.

Amy Twigg, author of Spoilt Creatures

Brilliantly cutting and delightfully terrifying. This Machine Feeds is an incisive and sardonic takedown of the entanglement between humans, technology and power.

Elle Nash, author of Animals Eat Each Other

Brilliantly cutting and delightfully terrifying. This Machine Feeds is an incisive and sardonic takedown of the entanglement between humans, technology and power.

Elle Nash, author of Animals Eat Each Other

This Machine Feeds is a deeply original, wild, outrageous, outraged, thrilling ride. Heather Parry is full of imagination and energy, this book leaps and dances, cajoles and bellows. It’s an extraordinary multi-storied creation from a hugely brilliant writer, so completely imagined, so furious and beautiful, so full of pain and insight. We fear for our future: Parry looks the future square in the face. A wonderful and explosive new work from a rare and powerful voice.

Edward Carey, author of Little

This Machine Feeds is a deeply original, wild, outrageous, outraged, thrilling ride. Heather Parry is full of imagination and energy, this book leaps and dances, cajoles and bellows. It’s an extraordinary multi-storied creation from a hugely brilliant writer, so completely imagined, so furious and beautiful, so full of pain and insight. We fear for our future: Parry looks the future square in the face. A wonderful and explosive new work from a rare and powerful voice.

Edward Carey, author of Little

With This Machine Feeds, Heather Parry cements her position as one of our foremost writers and thinkers. Vicious, tender and courageously intellectual, this is the book you should absolutely be reading right now.

Julia Armfield, author of Private Rites

With This Machine Feeds, Heather Parry cements her position as one of our foremost writers and thinkers. Vicious, tender and courageously intellectual, this is the book you should absolutely be reading right now.

Julia Armfield, author of Private Rites

Heather Parry is one of my favourite writers. This book is so good I kind of hate her. I'll be thinking about This Machine Feeds for months to come.

Kirsty Logan, author of The Things We Say in the Dark

Heather Parry is one of my favourite writers. This book is so good I kind of hate her. I'll be thinking about This Machine Feeds for months to come.

Kirsty Logan, author of The Things We Say in the Dark

An electrifying foray into the widening blur between life and performance, between humans and their appliances. Mapping our current landscape of anxieties, Heather Parry’s writing is immaculate.

Alan Moore, author of Watchmen

An electrifying foray into the widening blur between life and performance, between humans and their appliances. Mapping our current landscape of anxieties, Heather Parry’s writing is immaculate.

Alan Moore, author of Watchmen

Heather Parry has provided, in This Machine Feeds, an inoculation against the general malaise of these AI times.

Chikodili Emelumadu, author of Dazzling

Heather Parry has provided, in This Machine Feeds, an inoculation against the general malaise of these AI times.

Chikodili Emelumadu, author of Dazzling

Heather Parry’s This Machine Feeds is both a razor-sharp exploration of our current time and a terrifying glimpse into the dystopian future we seem to be careening towards. Incisive, brutal and beautifully written. A perfect encapsulation of senescent capitalism. Parry is an incredibly talented writer and an astute chronicler of the twenty-first century. Horrifying and compelling in equal measure.

Cailean Steed, author of Home

Heather Parry’s This Machine Feeds is both a razor-sharp exploration of our current time and a terrifying glimpse into the dystopian future we seem to be careening towards. Incisive, brutal and beautifully written. A perfect encapsulation of senescent capitalism. Parry is an incredibly talented writer and an astute chronicler of the twenty-first century. Horrifying and compelling in equal measure.

Cailean Steed, author of Home

What a ride! This Machine Feeds is a brilliant and bold exploration of our complicity in the dissolution of what we should value: real connection, originality in art and thought, reasonable living conditions, love... While it's tempting to say that this novel is a lovechild of Kurt Vonnegut and Jennifer Egan, Parry has created something all its own, with originality in spades.

Caoilinn Hughes, author of The Alternatives

What a ride! This Machine Feeds is a brilliant and bold exploration of our complicity in the dissolution of what we should value: real connection, originality in art and thought, reasonable living conditions, love... While it's tempting to say that this novel is a lovechild of Kurt Vonnegut and Jennifer Egan, Parry has created something all its own, with originality in spades.

Caoilinn Hughes, author of The Alternatives