Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

by Arwen Elys Dayton

‘Will send shivers down your spine’

Teen Vogue

‘A work of unforgettable vision and imagination. This book is everything I love about science fiction’

Jay Kristoff

Are you ready for the future?

Black Mirror with a touch of Westworld re-wiring, STRONGER, FASTER, AND MORE BEAUTIFUL is a novel in six interconnected parts about what it means to be human – and where those boundaries lie.

Set in our world, spanning the near to distant future, the author, Arwen Elys Dayton, explores the possible consequences of advanced medical breakthroughs and how they may shape and reshape humanity. From organ donation to plastic surgery to full bodily reconstruction, these stories take you by your (for now, organic) hand and lead you into a future where the line between person and machine becomes increasingly blurred.

Deeply thoughtful, poignant, horrifying, and action-packed, this novel strikes new ground while also seeming so strangely… likely.

Just try to disconnect.

• ISBN13: 9780008322397
• Publish Date: 4 December 2018
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 384
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.co.uk

Reviews

[Joséphine]

Initial thoughts: At the core, I get what Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful was trying to achieve but I still couldn't care less about the execution. This isn't a novel that follows a character from beginning to end, or several who eventually meet, then carry on. No. Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful is "novel" made up for six short stories that loosely follow the same thread.

This experimental novel glimpsed at the possibilities of improving human lives through technology or abusing those very advancements. These stories explore at what point humans are cyborg and beyond that, no longer human. It's that premise that first drew me to this book.

Sadly, the choice of presenting short story arcs rather than a fully developed one was the downfall of this book for me. The point was to show the multifaceted issues surrounding scientific and medical advancements but I don't think that this book succeeded in doing that. It fell short as the stories lacked depth and the characters barely established themselves. They were so fleeting in their existence that none of their plights really took hold.