For Emma Ewan Morrison 9781914090950

"A masterpiece ... the eminent fiction writer of our times" - Irvine Welsh

"Ewan Morrison's harrowing and beautiful new novel, For Emma, is an early warning system for the future. A worthy successor to Easy Travel to Other Planets, Neuromancer, and, of course, Brave New World." - David Shields, Reality Hunger

Multi-award-winning author Ewan Morrison's 9th book is a gripping, high-stakes, high concept thriller, which fuses futurism with a powerful emotional core.

Emma is a young genius Silicon Valley scientist who dies in a secret AI brain chip experiment. Her voice then haunts her father, helping him plan the killing of the Big Tech CEO who destroyed her.

For Emma is a ghost-in-the machine tale of bereavement and of a unique and conflicted love between a daughter and her father.

"Heartbreaking and harrowing, this is a suspenseful journey into a family's tortured past and its nightmarish present. Ewan Morrison's attention to the details of parental love and responsibility make this an unforgettable book."

Atom Egoyan

"For Emma is a brilliant book that you will devour. Its compelling exploration of love, loss, and the haunting power of technology and morality makes it a must-read, delving into the highly relevant and intriguing intersection of humanity and advanced AI."

Bruna Papandrea Producer - Gone Girl, Big Little Lies

"For Emma is a haunting work, resonating and echoing for a long time after reading. Although concerned with AI, it is a human book, both grief soaked and love filled. In For Emma, Morrison has created a true masterpiece, one that will endure as a testament to his concern for our endangered humanity."

Ali Millar

Ewan Morrison is an award-winning novelist, scriptwriter and essayist. His fiction tends to focus on the subject of the modern family, cults, idealism and extremism.

As a novelist he has won the following prizes:

The Saltire Society Literary Prize - Scottish Fiction Book of the Year, for his novel Nina X, (2019)

The Scottish Book of the Year (SMIT) Fiction Prize for his novel Close Your Eyes (2013)

Writer of the Year Award, in the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards, for Tales from the Mall (2012)

The film American Blackout (2014), co-written by Morrison and partner Emily Ballou, reached an audience of 45 million and was debated in the U.S Senate. It has a cult following among 'Preppers' and 'Survivalists'Morrison's feature film, Swung (2016), an adaptation of his first novel, was nominated for two BAFTAs and one international award. The novel, was also short-listed for the Le Prince Maurice Award (Mauritius) and led to Morrison being a finalist in the Arena Magazine Man of the Year Award (literature) 2006.

Morrison's novel Nina X (2019) is being adapted as a feature film with the director of an Academy Award nominated film, with Morrison as scriptwriter. The television rights for the adaptation of Morrison's book How to Survive Everything (2021) have been acquired by Made Up Stories and Endeavor and development has recently commenced. How to Survive Everything will be published by Harper Perennial in North America in the fall of 2022. Morrison is the winner of a Royal Television Society Award for best drama (2001) and has been nominated for four BAFTAs.