An NPR, GQ, and Buzzfeed Best Publication of the Year

One of The Washington Post’s best science fiction and fantasy books of the year

The acclaimed author of The Imagine Perpetual Motion returns having a compelling novel about the effects of science and technology on our friendships, our love lives, and our sense of self.

Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her existence, finding her way to avoid it of her grief and unhappiness following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her times working in about Version Control: A Book customer support online dating site where she initial met her spouse. But she’s a strange, persistent feeling that everything around her can be somewhat off-kilter: she constantly feels as if she has walked into a space and overlooked what she intended to perform there; on Television, the President seems to be the wrong person in the wrong place; her dreams are full of disquiet. On the other hand, her husband’s decade-long commitment to his invention, the causality violation device (which he would greatly prefer you not contact a “time machine”) has successfully stalled his career and made him a laughingstock in the physics community. But he may be nearer to achievement than either of these knows or may possibly imagine.

Version Control is about a possible near future, but it’s also about the way we live now. It’s about clever mobile phones and self-driving cars and what we believe about individuals we satisfy on the web. It’s in regards to a few, Rebecca and Philip, who have experienced a tragedy, and about how they help-and neglect to help-each other through it. Psychologically effective and stunningly visionary, Version Control will alter how you see your future as well as your present.