2024年8月6日 · In a city addled by climate change and populated by intelligent robots called “hums,” May loses her job to artificial intelligence. In a desperate bid to resolve her family’s debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by surveillance.

2024年8月19日 · “Hum,” Helen Phillips’s third novel, begins with a needle being drawn, steadily and irreversibly, across a woman named May’s face. She is participating in a paid experiment in...

2024年8月2日 · Imagine a city like New York, but where intelligent robots, known as hums, walk, talk and perform all kinds of jobs. Here, young children universally wear smart watches that track their welfare....

2024年8月6日 · In a near-future world addled by climate change and inhabited by intelligent robots called “hums,” May loses her job to artificial intelligence. Desperate to resolve her family’s debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by surveillance.

2024年8月6日 · In a near-future world addled by climate change and inhabited by intelligent robots called “hums,” May loses her job to artificial intelligence. Desperate to resolve her family’s debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by surveillance.

In a near-future world addled by climate change and inhabited by intelligent robots called “hums,” May loses her job to artificial intelligence. Desperate to resolve her family’s debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by surveillance.

2024年8月2日 · In “Hum,” Helen Phillips has written an eerie and electric novel that blurs the lines between dystopia and reality. What makes this especially creepy is how masterfully she taps the sense...

2024年8月23日 · In “Hum,” a new book by American novelist Helen Phillips, artificial intelligence is ubiquitous. Yet, it’s not a dystopia. The environment she writes about is worryingly realistic and might be just around the corner.

It’s a haunting, minimalist exploration of motherhood, anxiety, and the ever-present hum of unease that pervades modern life. Told through fragmented diary entries, the novel delves into the mind of a woman grappling with the anxieties of parenting, a growing sense of alienation, and the unsettling feeling that something is deeply wrong.

Written in taut, urgent prose, Hum is a work of speculative fiction that unflinchingly explores marriage, motherhood, and selfhood in a world compromised by global warming and dizzying technological advancement, a world of both dystopian and utopian possibilities.