In this satirical follow-up to The Circle, a former forest ranger named Delaney Wells goes undercover at the world's dominant tech-and-commerce monopoly, intending to destroy it from within by pitching ever more absurd and invasive products, gambling that the company is too far gone to recognize satire. Instead, each proposal she thinks will horrify the public is embraced and adopted, accelerating the very total-surveillance, algorithmic-consensus culture she set out to expose. The novel follows her uneasy alliances and doubts as the company closes in on total control over knowledge, art, and human behavior.
Books mentioned in The Every (6)
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “They’re examining four versions of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot.”
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: “We can take, for example, two thousand readers of Jane Eyre and see who finished it.”
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: “You’d have a generation that not only was assigned Anna Karenina, but actually read it.”
Middlemarch by George Eliot: “Would you like to continue reading Middlemarch?”
The Crucible by Arthur Miller: “But compared to the Everyones around her, she felt like an extra in The Crucible.”
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia by Joseph D. Pistone: “She’d read a few books on being undercover, including Donnie Brasco’s, and most of the narrators warned against complacency— becoming too accustomed to the surroundings, too sympathetic to the players.”