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The Feed: A Novel Kindle Edition
The Feed is accessible everywhere, by everyone, at any time. It instantaneously links us to all information and global events as they break. Every interaction, every emotion, every image can be shared through it; it is the essential tool everyone relies on to know and understand the thoughts and feelings of anyone and everyone else in the world.
Tom and Kate use the Feed, but Tom has resisted its addiction, which makes him suspect to his family. After all, his father created it. But that opposition to constant connection serves Tom and Kate well when the Feed collapses after a horrific tragedy shatters the world as they know it.
The Feed’s collapse, taking modern society with it, leaves people scavenging to survive. Finding food is truly a matter of life and death. Minor ailments, previously treatable, now kill. And while the collapse has demolished the trappings of the modern world, it has also eroded trust. In a world where survival of the fittest is a way of life, there is no one to depend upon except yourself . . . and maybe even that is no longer true.
Tom and Kate have managed to protect themselves and their family. But then their six-year-old daughter, Bea, goes missing. Who has taken her? How do you begin to look for someone in a world without technology? And what happens when you can no longer even be certain that the people you love are really who they claim to be?
*Wall Street Journal bestselling author Joe Hart
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWilliam Morrow
- Publication dateMarch 13, 2018
- File size2656 KB
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“A chilling, dystopian page-turner—I was hooked from the very beginning and haunted for days after finishing it.” — S.J. Watson, bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep
“Evocative of Black Mirror, The Feed is a visceral warning about our addiction to technology and shortening attention spans in the form of an optimistic, engaging human perseverance tale.” — Tal M. Klein, author of The Punch Escrow
“A really clever and original book. A tense thriller wrapped up in a scarily plausible dystopian nightmare, with a twist that will make your head explode!” — C.J. Tudor, author of The Chalk Man
“This thought-provoking debut shines a speculative light on the subjects of connection, disconnection, and identity in a not-so-distant digital age. The fast pace and absorbing plot will keep readers racing to the end.”
— Library Journal (starred review)
“Nick Clark Windo’s debut, quickly establishes this is not your typical post-apocalyptic scenario [...] Though there are clear similarities to “The Walking Dead” and “The Circle,” the book offers fresh, smart commentary about digital dependence and its potential effect on our minds and relationships.” — Washington Post (Best Science Fiction and Fantasy -- March 2018)
“Think The Road intricately wrapped around Station Eleven with a dash of Oryx and Crake...Windo pushes all the right buttons in this post-apocalyptic mashup.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Imagine a mash-up of “Black Mirror” episodes in post-apocalyptic Britain.” — Washington Post
“A startling and timely debut which presents a world as unique and vividly imagined as Station Eleven and The Girl With All the Gifts.” — Fantastic Faction
“Easily one of the most powerful and disturbing novels of the year, a dystopian mash-up of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Jack Finney’s The Body Snatchers (sans alien pods) with a heavy nod towards John Wyndham, Nigel Kneale, Philip K Dick and Orwell’s 1984.” — Starburst Magazine
“[A] brilliant, highly charged debut.” — Daily Mail (UK)
“A compelling story of people rediscovering what it means to be human in a world abruptly unplugged.” — Christopher Brown, author of Tropic of Kansas
“Warning: THE FEED is ludicrously addictive...I devoured this story barely putting it down. Great concept, great execution, plenty of book trauma with a huge emotional rush of an ending. Left me vaguely tearful. Highly Recommended.” — Liz Loves Books
“THE FEED examines our addiction to technology through the lens of a bleak dystopia, reminiscent of The Road. A deft and extremely clever work of sci-fi that kept me completely immersed in the world Windo created.” — Joe Hart, WSJ bestselling author of The Last Girl
“Surprising and ambitious, The Feed takes connectivity to a terrifying extreme--and then rips it away. Technology-addled survivors are forced to relearn how to live in a world in which nothing is safe, not even sleep. Fascinating.” — Alexandra Oliva, author of The Last One
“I really enjoyed it and what a great ending!” — Martina Cole, author of the Sunday Times bestselling DCI Kate Burrows series
“What a riveting and original novel! The Feed is frighteningly believable and disturbing and I loved the way I was pulled into its dark reality, so convincing it’s almost unbearable. The Feed is one of those rare novels that changes your mind as you read it.” — Helen Dunmore, author of The Siege
“A tense thriller with a strong vein of the speculative. And that ending . . . blimey!” — Den Patrick, author of The Boy With the Porcelain Blade
“Nick Clark Windo’s captivating debut is a dark, thought-provoking read. Tap into The Feed and it will change your world.” — Adam Hamdy, author of Pendulum
From the Back Cover
It makes us. It destroys us. Now we must learn to live without it.
The Feed is accessible everywhere, by everyone, at any time. It links us instantaneously to all information and global events as they break. Every interaction, every emotion, every image can be shared through it; it is the essential tool everyone relies on to know and understand the thoughts and feelings of partners, parents, friends, children, colleagues, bosses, employees . . . in fact, of anyone and everyone else in the world.
Tom and Kate use the Feed, but Tom has resisted its addiction, which makes him suspect to his family. After all, his father created it. But that opposition to constant connection serves Tom and Kate well when the Feed goes black after a horrific tragedy shatters the world as they know it.
The Feed’s collapse, taking modern society with it, leaves people scavenging to survive. Finding food is truly a matter of life and death. Minor ailments, previously treatable, now kill. And while the loss of the Feed has demolished the trappings of the modern world, it has also eroded trust. In a world where survival of the fittest is a way of life, there is no one to depend upon except yourself . . . and maybe even that is no longer true.
Tom and Kate have managed to protect themselves and their family. But then their six-year-old daughter, Bea, goes missing. Who has taken her? How do you begin to look for someone in a world without technology? And what happens when you can no longer even be certain that the people you love are really who they claim to be?
About the Author
Nick Clark Windo studied English literature at Cambridge and acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and he now works as a film producer and communications coach. The Feed, his first thriller, was inspired by his realization that people are becoming increasingly disconnected from one another, as well as by philosophical questions about identity and memory. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
Product details
- ASIN : B071RQX5TL
- Publisher : William Morrow (March 13, 2018)
- Publication date : March 13, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 2656 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 341 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #160,324 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,659 in Dystopian Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #2,128 in Science Fiction Adventure
- #2,148 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
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I just want to start out by saying I hate social media. I use Facebook because so many groups and people I know won't communicate with me outside of Facebook. I hated YouTube when it came out, slowly grew to accept it, and then slid back into hating it because of what a terrible of a place it is. But again, I still use YouTube because without it I'd have practically nothing.
The Feed, both the video series, and this book, seem to be firmly rooted in the idea that always-on overstimulating social media are very bad. Climate change is bad also. I'm 100% on board with both of those ideas. The video series really fleshed out (and changed) what happens in the first 14 pages of the book. I think the video series made a good choice, really, but the video series is about something different than the book now, just based on the same idea in the same multi-media universe. What is coming in the rest of the book, not having read it yet, seems harder to convert to video, but I'm looking forward to reading it in book form. So I probably won't be spoiling the video series if they produce more of it.
We are at a point in our lives when societal collapse from climate change and social media both seem likely. It feels like the collapse on both fronts has already started, really. I've been watching prepper videos on youtube, and now I have this instructional book to read. When I was a child, it was the cold war and nuclear annihilation that took up most my thought processes. Then it was the impending zombie apocalypse. Now this.
“What would you sacrifice . . . for the good of your brain?” because—and there is no way I could tell Tom this, though I’d like to scream it in his face—I don’t think I’d sacrifice the Feed! I don’t think I could! I can’t! I want to go on right now, I’m screaming for it inside!"
Nothing is "saved" in your brain anymore, nothing is remembered .... it is all in your implant. Which is fine because the Feed is always there, always available. Until something goes very wrong, and it is no longer there, and the entire world falls apart.
I did not get enough story WITH the feed, I found it fascinating and gone too fast. Thankfully through the rest of the story, through the horrors, there are little blips of the past describing bits of life with the feed.
The aftermath is a nightmare ... people are taken, everyone is terrified, and just surviving takes every minute of the day. Though there are parts that drag, there are some surprising twists and a really good ending.
I had started 3 different books and couldn't get interested in them. I started The Feed and couldn't put it down. I even woke up at 5 am and was mulling over events in The Feed and finally got up to finish the book.
Building on ideas that I've read previously in The Circle or Song of Synth Mr Windo sees a near future of implants allowing people to connect all thoughts, all the time. Is this in mankind's best interest and does it leave us open to an actual loss of knowledge and possible invasion of our minds?
This was a great first book and covered intriguing ideas and themes that we should be thinking about as our world becomes more connected and we spend more time online.
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It starts with the two main characters Tom and Kate conversing about the Feed's addicting nature and then after a few pages we're thrown into the future, 6 years later. It was tough to make sense as to what was happening, with new lingos coming on about. But the story starts revealing itself in a few chapters. Tbh I felt a bit lost during those chapters, once you're past through them that's when the novel kicks in.
The rest of the story goes on with Tom, Kate and a few others struggling to adjust without the feed. Also they never sleep unwatched (with the fear of being taken). People being 'Taken' is what brought in the collapse of the feed. I ain't gonna reveal the whole thing here dont worry...😅
The whole thing is beautifully written by Nick Clark Windo, I wasn't able to take my hands off it. The story is so gripping and thriling, it really haunts you. The language used is a bit, I wouldn't say tough, it makes you think is what it is. The plot is slowly burning, takes a while to catch up you think you have it and at a point it blows up (in a good way I mean). It surprised me all of a sudden.
The characters involved are portrayed brilliantly, their actions make sense in alignment to what their motivation is. And also the Ending makes sense that's all I can say.
The concept of the 'taken' was really interesting, though the truth of them I felt was a little too far-fetched for me to believe. Putting that aside and accepting it as it is, I was able to understand the motives and reasons behind it, even though the result of their actions is no better than what they were originally working towards. It's hard to say more without giving spoilers, but suffice to say I had great sympathy with the one we came to know. I also kind of accept Tom's decision, though I can't help but wish he'd chosen differently.
The story as a whole had a great aura of sadness to it. It is a world (our world) that has become so dependent on technology and its ease to the point where we made it part of us, and then realising how bereft we are when it is taken away. When speech is hard to form, and we cannot do even the most basic of things. Our brains become naturally sluggish, relying on data to enforce what we know and remind us of who we are. It's a sad and almost realistic truth. Even the ending had a tang of sadness in it, and I wish it could have been different but I accept what it is.
Would I recommend it: most definitely.
Set in the near future it explores a time where we are constantly connected to The Feed, a device that is within us and allows us to be constantly connected to each other and the wider world. The Feed lets us see other people’s memories, thoughts and feelings and allows us to carry out whole conversations without even opening our mouths. Everything is shared, all thoughts are available in a millisecond and The Feed is as big a need as food and water. But what happens when The Feed collapses? How do people who have spent decades connected to one another communicate? How do they live? How do they exist? These are the questions which Nick Clark Windo asks via strong characters, a broad and sweeping landscape and a clever and inventive plot.
As dystopian fiction goes I found this absolutely terrifying. It is incredibly real and wholly recognisable. The Feed is an extreme version of the lives we are living now and at times I winced in recognition of how reliant I have become at having the whole world at my fingertips. A post Feed world sees the protagonists Kate and Tom living in a remote farmhouse with their daughter Bea, and other survivors of the collapse. The effect of The Feed on the human brain is astounding, words are shortened, others are adopted with a different meaning.
He quivers between seriousness and glee as he describes how mem is to remember and how mundles are memories. Emotis are emotions. How to talk is to talk and not to stream; a stream is a small river, like a brook.
However, this is the tip of the iceberg because although The Feed has been switched off the technology is still lying dormant allowing them to hijacked and inhabited by another person. Everybody is therefore watched whilst they sleep lest their bodies be taken over by an unknown entity. When two of their members are ‘taken’ and Bea goes missing Tom and Kate set out on a journey into a post-Feed UK which is a dark, lonely and desolate place.
Dystopian fiction lives and dies on the world that is created within it and Nick Clark Windo has done a sterling job in this book. There are layers and layers of details that are casually yet expertly dotted throughout the book to create a world which felt like a living, breathing thing. Atmosphere seeps from the pages, gradually building tension and suspense as Tom and Kate navigate a desperate and difficult world.
A fox stops, steady on its legs, and large. Another jumps down to the pavement from a wall. And another. Then three more. All of them watching, circling, waiting. These things are huge and well fed.
Beyond the world building of advertisements being fed straight into our brains, messages sent out to billions of people and emotions being communicated by thoughts this is a book about human nature. Nick Clark Windo has taken humans back to an almost childlike state where they must learn how to communicate on a basic level without the aid of technology. The most primal emotions are difficult for Kate and Tom who both struggle to understand how the other feels without the aid of The Feed. I found this incredibly sad to read and got frustrated that they were unable to read facial cues. I also felt that for both of them, their relationship with Bea wasn’t quite as intense as it would have been had they not had previously been so reliant upon The Feed. I was absorbed in their story though, and was willing them on on their quest through the abandoned towns and villages of England.
The Feed is a cracking novel which made my head spin and I can’t stop thinking about it. It is extremely well-written, absorbing, compelling and I defy you to read a less gripping opening chapter than the one which Nick Clark Windo has written. It sets up the book wonderfully well and is one of the best I have ever read.
However I thought the authors writing style was exceptionally good. And would try more books by them