Ariel S. Winter was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Shamus Award, and the Macavity Award for his novel The Twenty-Year Death. He is also the author of the children’s picture book One of a Kind, illustrated by David Hitch, and the blog We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie. He lives in Baltimore.
"Providing further evidence of the futility of genre labels, BARREN
COVE is a thoughtful and affecting family drama that just happens
to be about robots. Winter’s vision of a machine-ruled dystopia is
a quiet country manor where a few mechanical people search for
meaning in the mysteries of their programming. An unsettling
portrait of humanity as seen through the eyes of its
creations."
*Isaac Marion, New York Times bestselling author of WARM BODIES and
THE LIVING*
“BARREN COVE is a touching and funny and skillfully written novel
and an original take on science fiction. I'm not a great fan of
this genre, but I can see, with this one book, how Mr. Winter could
make me one. The writing is clean and highly readable; the
characters are believable, despite being robots; the dialog is
ear-perfect, and the plot never sags or lets up for a minute. I had
a great time reading it.”
*Stephen Dixon, National Book Award nominated author of FROG and
INTERSTATE*
“A meticulously imagined story that reads like The Wasp Factory
soldered into Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The pages really
skittered by. Genuinely literary science fiction.”
*Natasha Pulley, author of the internationally bestselling THE
WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET*
“Bold, innovative and thrilling.”
*on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH*
“Extraordinary…seductive, even sinister….like some glittering
spiderweb that catches the eye of an admiring fly.”
*on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH*
"An absolute astonishment."
*on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH*
"Wildly, audaciously original."
*on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH*
"A delight."
*on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH*
"Marvelous."
*on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH*
“A testament to style…[a] triumph.”
*on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH*
“If there was ever a born writer, Mr. Winter is one…sharp, smart,
original, intensely interesting and ingenious.”
*on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH*
“Audacious and astonishingly executed….immersive, exhilarating, and
revelatory.”
*on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH*
"Brilliant."
*on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH*
“Weaves a uniquely dreamy spell, and a lingering one. Lyrical,
unexpected, and curiously affecting…a story that lodges uneasily in
the heart and mind.”
*Kirkus Reviews*
“A quietly brilliant look at what it means to be human. This
deserves to be a classic.”
*Booklist (starred review)*
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