Helen Phillips

3 weeks ago | audible.com | Sam Danis |Susanna Clarke |Helen Phillips

After a revealing and compulsive second season of Severance, we’re faced with another wait for the next—though hopefully it won't be quite as long as we had to wait for Season 2. If you’re not ready to sever ties with the show, fear not. These listens all capture some of the qualities that make Severance so compelling—from the eerie liminality of the office space, to the threat of malicious and mysterious corporate overlords, to the absurdity of modern working culture. Piranesi lives in the House.

Nov 13, 2024 | time.com | Annabel Gutterman |Helen Phillips

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Annabel GuttermanNovember 13, 2024 8:03 AM ESTIn her latest unsettling thriller, Helen Phillips conjures a terrifying near future crippled by climate change where AI bots called “hums” have infiltrated every aspect of modern life.

Nov 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Helen Phillips

The American novelist Helen Phillips’s speculative thriller The Need (2019) was longlisted for the National Book Award. The technique of mixing ordinary life with futuristic elements proved so successful that Phillips revisits it in Hum, her unnerving third novel. Hum follows May Webb, who proved so good at her job improving AI’s communicative abilities that she rendered herself obsolete.

Aug 29, 2024 | zip06.com | Helen Phillips

Hum by Helen Phillips Once you pick this up, you won’t put it down. With timely themes of technology, surveillance, and climate change, there’s a certain dystopian feel to the story. What grounds the story, though, is the Webb family. How much pressure can a family withstand? Can they trust the technology meant to “help” them? Hum is both a timely warning and a timeless story of family, marriage, and motherhood. Liz, R.J. Julia Booksellers, Madison

Aug 16, 2024 | journalgazette.net | Joseph Kanon |Helen Phillips |Rob Hart

These thrillers are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “Shanghai”by Joseph Kanon After escaping the Gestapo, Daniel Lohr arrives in Shanghai, where glamor and squalor exist side by side. As he tries to navigate through his uncle’s world in the city’s fabled nightlife, he tries to stay one step ahead of murder and outrun his own past.