Heather Parry
Heather Parry is a Glasgow-based writer and editor originally from South Yorkshire. She is the co-founder and Editorial Director of Extra Teeth magazine, co-host of the Teenage Scream podcast and the Scottish Senior Policy & Liaison Manager for the Society of Authors. Her short stories and nonfiction have been published internationally, and her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award and Longlisted for the Polari Prize.
BUYING OPTIONS
Buy Electric Dreams
In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we?
Sex robots are everywhere – in media, headlines and public debate. They’re presented as the future of intimacy, a solution to loneliness, a threat to human relationships. Campaigns have been mounted against them. Yet roboticists insist that the sex robot as we imagine it is little more than distracting science fiction. So why are we so obsessed?
In Electric Dreams, Heather Parry explores what our fascination with sex robots reveals about us. Looking beyond the seductive promises and dystopian fears, she examines the ideas about sex, gender, power and capitalism that underpin the debate – and asks whose desires are being centred, and whose possibilities are being overlooked.
Provocative, incisive and unexpectedly hopeful, Electric Dreams challenges us to stop worrying about an imagined robotic future and think more radically about intimacy, pleasure and human connection in the world we already inhabit.
