Every Version of You

Author: Grace Chan

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Thriller / suspense | Science fiction | Fiction: special features

Published on 22^nd May 2025 by Verve Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 288 pages
128mm x 197mm x 20mm | 198g

In late-twenty-first-century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside an immersive, consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile, their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments.

Across the city, in the abandoned real world, Tao-Yi's mother remains stubbornly offline, dwindling away between hospital visits and memories of her earlier life in Malaysia.

When a new technology is developed to permanently upload a human brain to Gaia, Tao-Yi must decide what is most important: a digital future or an authentic past.