PRAISE FOR ARIEL S. WINTER AND BARREN COVE
“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
“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 Burning World
“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
“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)
“From the first line to the last, I loved every page, my brain lighting up in strange and wonderful ways.”
—The Literate Quilter
“Ariel S. Winter has created a masterful work in Barren Cove. His writing style flows beautifully and ensnared me before I quite comprehended where he was taking me.”
—Popcorn Reads
“Winter’s plot-line is drenched in risk, but he’s able to pull it off via layered characters who speak in universal tones about the world which we share.”
—Electric Review
PRAISE FOR ARIEL S. WINTER’S THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
“Bold, innovative and thrilling.”
—Stephen King, New York Times bestselling author
“Extraordinary… seductive, even a little sinister… like some glittering spider web that catches the eye of an admiring fly.”
—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
“An absolute astonishment.”
—Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author of A Dark Matter
“Wildly, audaciously original.”
—James Frey, New York Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces
“[A] delight.”
—Alice Sebold, New York Times bestselling author of The Lovely Bones
“A testament to style… [a] triumph.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Marvelous.”
—The Washington Post
“Tight, compact, and riveting.”
—City Paper (Baltimore)
“Winter carries his tri-fold tale off with consummate skill.… [A] groundbreaking crime epic.”
“Sometimes a first novel appears that is so bold, so innovative, so brilliant that you just have to tip your hat and say ‘Bravo.’… [It’s] as if Winter decided to show up at Yankee Stadium determined to hit with Babe Ruth’s bat and belted a home run first time at the plate.… Transcendent.”
—Bookreporter
“Audacious and astonishingly executed… immersive, exhilarating, and revelatory.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“A hell of a lot of fun.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Brilliant.”
—Library Journal (starred review)