Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World, this is a genre-bending, near-future tech nightmare that is both bitingly funny and horrifically believable. Explore the existential horror of the 'I' in AI through a terrifying, innovative narrative.

• Genre-bending near-future tech horror exploring artificial intelligence and identity.
• Features protagonist Julia Flang, a former professional gamer hired to chaperone a man with an implanted AI mind.
• Includes a parallel narrative of a man trapped in a disorienting hellscape with no memory.
• Written by Paul Tremblay, acclaimed author of The Cabin at the End of the World.
• Praised for its hypnotic prose, humor, and terrifying warnings of future horrors.

Julia Flang, a former professional gamer, accepts a high-paying temp job from her estranged CFO mother: escorting a man in a vegetative state from California to the East Coast. The complication? The man has an AI mind implanted in his head. Simultaneously, a middle-aged man awakens in a fluid, morphing reality filled with monstrous grotesqueries, possessing no memory of his identity or the rabbit tattoo on his arm, only the need to find a specific, forgotten person.

• Author: Paul Tremblay
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Archer
• Publication Date: July 2, 2026
• Print Length: 336 pages
• ISBN-10: 1037205790
• ISBN-13: 978-1037205798
• Dimensions: 15.6 x 3.4 x 23.4 cm (156x34x234mm)
• Item Weight: 530 g

Dive into this electrifying and wild skewering of Silicon Valley's potential takeover of the human mind, hailed as a masterwork of modern horror fiction.