Giorgio de Maria (1924–2009) was a pianist, critic, playwright, and novelist. He wrote four novels, the best remembered of which is The Twenty Days of Turin. Ramon Glazov has contributed to many US and Australian publications, including Jacobin and Tincture Journal. He splits his time between Perth and Turin.

"Remarkably prescient. There was a disquieting commonality between its intended place and moment and the one we find ourselves in now… No Gibson, no Sterling, no cyberpunk or spec-fic scribbler of the '80s or '90s ever captured the poisoned zeitgeist of social media better than this… It was a book written for a different world. And the most disturbing thing about it is how appropriate it is for ours."

Giorgio de Maria (1924–2009) was a pianist, critic, playwright, and novelist. He wrote four novels, the best remembered of which is The Twenty Days of Turin. Ramon Glazov has contributed to many US and Australian publications, including Jacobin and Tincture Journal. He splits his time between Perth and Turin.

"Remarkably prescient. There was a disquieting commonality between its intended place and moment and the one we find ourselves in now… No Gibson, no Sterling, no cyberpunk or spec-fic scribbler of the '80s or '90s ever captured the poisoned zeitgeist of social media better than this… It was a book written for a different world. And the most disturbing thing about it is how appropriate it is for ours."

Giorgio de Maria (1924–2009) was a pianist, critic, playwright, and novelist. He wrote four novels, the best remembered of which is The Twenty Days of Turin. Ramon Glazov has contributed to many US and Australian publications, including Jacobin and Tincture Journal. He splits his time between Perth and Turin.

"Remarkably prescient. There was a disquieting commonality between its intended place and moment and the one we find ourselves in now… No Gibson, no Sterling, no cyberpunk or spec-fic scribbler of the '80s or '90s ever captured the poisoned zeitgeist of social media better than this… It was a book written for a different world. And the most disturbing thing about it is how appropriate it is for ours."