J. O. Morgan is a Scottish author. His 2018 work Assurances, looking at the RAF's early involvement with maintaining the nuclear deterrent, won that year's Costa Poetry Award. He has been twice shortlisted for both the Forward and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Appliance is his second novel.
These deceptively simple tales... reveal how magical technology
does people absolutely no good whatsoever... superb. * The
Times, Science Fiction Book of the Month *
Superbly unsettling... Reading Appliance, I was put
in mind of Asimov's I, Robot, for the way each story sheds
light on a different moral angle of the book's world, and of
ours... gripping. -- Tristram Fane Saunders * Daily
Telegraph *
Compelling... sketched with acid precision... Morgan's real
skill is in finding the poetry of the conundrum -- Stuart Kelly
* Scotsman *
Eliot comes repeatedly to mind in reading Interference
Pattern because, in its tragic grandeur and sophistication,
it is a poem that could come to be for the twenty-first century
what The Waste Land was to the twentieth. * Times
Literary Supplement, on INTERFERENCE PATTERN *
I seriously doubt I will read a more significant book of poetry
this year. The finale is truly affecting, a plangent and
profound speck of light. * The Scotsman, on ASSURANCES *
A rippling, impeccable lyricism that's delicious to read
aloud. If you haven't discovered Morgan, this weird, unsettling
trip is the perfect introduction. * The Telegraph, on THE
MARTIAN'S REGRESS *
Compelling... It is the Bindungsroman of something inhuman,
and it is terrifying. * Scotsman, *Summer Reads of 2022* *
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