Jack Remiel Cottrell’s second book, The Emotion Dealer, is a kaleidoscopic exploration of technology, art, cities, capitalism, disinformation, loneliness and greed. It is a guide for our troubled moment and a book that will make you wonder what—if anything—we are leaving for those who come after us.
‘Thematically, Cottrell’s stories explore technology, capitalism, disinformation, memory and knowledge. They lean towards sci-fi and speculative genres, with a large dollop of dystopia’ writes Philippa Tucker in Kete.
Angelique Kasmara observes, ‘Many stand out for their wit, invention, or alchemical reality-bending: cutting-edge technologies agitate against rural Gothic unease, iPhone-shiny speculative worlds tarnish on contact. His shrewd eye particularly excels at drawing the absurd and the dystopian from seemingly ordinary scenarios, their narratives suggesting an unease akin to briefly lifting the frog out of the heating pot, just long enough for it to glimpse the creeping horror in which it was soaking.’ Full review in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books.
