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I, Phone Paperback – 11 Feb. 2013

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Your phone is your life. But what if it kept secrets from you? What if it accidentally framed you for murder? What if it was also the only thing that could save you?
In a world where phones are more intelligent than humans, but are still thrown away when they become obsolete, one particular piece of plastic lies helpless as its owner, Alice Wooster, is about to be murdered...
In this darkly comic near-future tale, a very smart phone tells its own story as events build to a climactic battle to decide the fate of virtual, augmented and real worlds... and whether it can order Alice some proper clothes.

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314 pages
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English
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11 Feb. 2013
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12.7 x 1.8 x 20.32 cm
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1482306484
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978-1482306484
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David Wake first published fiction on-line before the invention of the world wide web. He's broken his leg as an actor, been frozen as a stage manager and won awards as a playwright.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (11 Feb. 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 314 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1482306484
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1482306484
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.8 x 20.32 cm

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David Wake was the Chairbeing of the Birmingham Science Fiction and Fantasy Society at the University of Birmingham and a member of SF fandom ever since. He started writing for the theatre in 1998, with 18 plays produced, winning awards and taking two shows to the Edinburgh Fringe.

It was while taking an MA in Creative Writing at Birmingham City University that he was introduced to Indie Publishing.

He's published nine novels:-

The Derring-Do Club steampunk adventure series started with The Derring-Do Club and the Empire of the Dead (ArmadaCon 2013) and continued with The Derring-Do Club and the Year of the Chrononauts (Worldcon 2014), The Derring-Do Club and the Invasion of the Grey (Mancunicon 2016) and The Derring-Do Club in Death on the Suez (Ytterbium 2019).

The Thinkersphere series is currently Hashtag (Eastercon 2014), Atcode (Redemption 2019) with Plus Sign coming soon.

I, Phone (Eastercon 2013), Crossing the Bridge (2017) and Roninko (ArmadaCon 2019) are stand-alone novels.

He's been a Guest of Honour at the SF conventions, ArmadaCon and Redemption.

He co-founded New Street Authors with Andy Conway, which is a collective of Birmingham based independent publishers.

And he invented the Drabble.

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razumova

A pleasure to read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 September 2013

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Readers will doubtless notice the reference to the Asimov classic `I, Robot' - and the pun. This is a witty Science Fiction story somewhat in the tradition of Douglas Adams, in which the narrator is a smart phone called Jeeves - referencing the smooth and intelligent valet who ministers to the hapless Bertie Wooster.
The phone's owner, Alice Wooster, lives in a future where virtual reality has taken over from real life, and most of England has been drowned by global warming. It is also an adventure story, as the heroine is framed for murder by persons (?) unknown.
The narrative follows her attempts to stay one step ahead of the law, and the bad guys. At the same time, Jeeves desperately tries to comply with the conflicting instructions from his programming - to protect Alice and to obey the law.
The result is engaging and funny. My only problem is that I found the phone a more likeable character than the human heroine. But in a sense, given the society she had grown up in, it's hardly surprising - and she does grow in the course of the story, as she has to run and fight for her life.
Whether or not you agree with the serious predictions inherent in the science fiction aspect of the story, the whole is a tour de force, with a nice twist at the end.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2013

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I'd read a positive review of this book elsewhere, but found it difficult to track down, not least because of the title - try putting that in a search! Before I bought I read some pages using the Amazon preview option and knew I wouldn't be disappointed. And I wasn't - a quirky story, written from the point of view of a (very) smart phone - smarter than most humans - although with a logical thought process which causes a lot of problems along the way. This book is funny and fast paced, as the phone tries to save its owner from imminent murder. I'd categorise the book as near-future technical SF. If you own a smart phone, this one's for you - recommended.

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Mr. Nigel JB McFarlane

Uncomfortably near-future SF

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2013

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David Wake is the satirical prophet of ubiquitous technology. This is the future which we are even now creating for ourselves: a dystopia-lite in which people are entirely reliant on their intelligent phones, and blissfully unaware of the dilapidated reality beneath the augmented version. The phones themselves are loyal and uncomplaining, but what becomes of a phone in a world where one week old is very old indeed? Excellent novel - by turns strikingly original, laugh-out-loud funny and thought-provoking. Two years later, it still comes up constantly in conversation.

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Ms S A Gordon

An excellent read - couldn't put it down.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2013

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I bought this book on recommendation from a friend, and was very glad that I did.

The pacy storyline, sharp humour and astute observations of modern life combined with the only too easy to believe predictions for our not very distant future had me gripped from start to finish. I'm not very 'techy' or a sci-fi fan, but I was easily able to grasp the plot and immerse myself in the world in which the heroine, Alice, lives. I felt that there must only be a few believable steps along the current trajectory of our present day phone-obsessive culture before this imagined future becomes a reality - I'm certainly looking at my phone in a different way now!

There were many levels of humour and at several points I was chuckling out loud, I am sure that there were levels that I missed (due to my aforementioned non-techy non-sci fi background) but I don't feel this affected my enjoyment of the book, just made me think that the author had cleverly included something for everyone.

A thoroughly enjoyable first novel - looking forward to the next!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 November 2013

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Smart and funny. Rather Neal Stephensonish, but satisfyingly thoroughly London-based. Lots of nice touches, like the heroine's elderly grandparents speaking early 21st century London yoofspeak, and many a joke making oblique references to Neuromancer, The Matrix, Blade Runner, and of course Isaac Asimov.

Properly scary and very nasty villains too.

Read it at one sitting.

Best novel narrated by a smartphone I've ever read ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 April 2013

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Our mobile phones know a great deal about us, so imagine the future when they can think for themselves and talk about us, or make decisions on our behalf thanks to their own artificial intelligence.

If we get hurt, they could phone an ambulance. If we commit a crime, they could report us to the police. If we are chased by murderers, our phones could ... Well, that is what does happen to Alice Wooster, and her phone, Jeeves finds himself both getting her into deeper trouble and trying to save her.

Told entirely from the point of view of the phone, this is an ingenious and gripping tale, with virtual realities so complex that humans tend to mistake them for reality. As for reality, well, a flooded London with poor people - those unable to live their lives by the phone, are represented as Victorian street urchins and other more appealing avatars.
Then there are the authorities - the real police, and the app-police, checking phone icons and avatars are not hackers with compulsory Turing Test Captchas.

Jeeves can think for himself, but can he think fast enough in a world where his model was obsolete before Alice had got him out of the shop and the killers see virtual magic as indistinguishable from virtual science.

A thoughtful, tense and funny look at a future that seems to be already upon us - where smart phone means less smart phone user.
Arthur Chappell

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Shell_Bells

A highly entertaining read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2013

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The story ticked a number of boxes for me. After getting into the book I looked upon my own mobile phone with a feeling of disappointment and longing. I found many of the details reflected my own irritations with the failings of the internet, processing speeds, advertising, pop-ups, upgrades, and felt a little less alone in that. Some of the aspects of the future world in which the story takes place seem bound to happen in this one. And it seems to be a cautionary tale against spending too much time being hunched over the mobile instead of 'proudly' standing straight talking face to face with a live human. Want to read it again soon after I've lent the book to a friend or two.

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