Remake, Connie Willis
Remake, Connie Willis
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Remake

Author: Connie Willis

Narrator: Ryan Burke

Unabridged: 4 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/31/2023


Synopsis

Winner of more Hugo and Nebula Awards than any other science fiction author, Connie Willis is one of the most powerfully imaginative writers of our time. In Remake, she explores the timeless themes of emotion and technology, reality and illusion, and the bittersweet place where they intersect to make art.

It's the Hollywood of the future, where moviemaking's been computerized and live-action films are a thing of the past. It's a Hollywood where Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe are starring together in A Star Is Born, and if you don't like the ending, you can change it with the stroke of a key.

A Hollywood of warm bodies and sim-sex, of drugs and special effects, where anything is possible. Except for what one starry-eyed young woman wants to do: dance in the movies. It's an impossible dream, but Alis is not willing to give up. With a little magic and a lot of luck, she just might get her happy ending after all.

About Connie Willis

Connie Willis is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and a Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She has received seven Nebula awards and eleven Hugo awards for her fiction; Blackout and All Clear-a novel in two parts, and Doomsday Book won both. Her other works include Crosstalk, Passage, Lincoln's Dreams, Bellwether, Impossible Things, Remake, Uncharted Territory, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Fire Watch, The Best of Connie Willis, and A Lot Like Christmas. Willis lives with her family in Colorado.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Megan on May 19, 2014

Most of the time, I love Connie Willis' books. Sometimes, though, they just never take flight. This was, unfortunately, one of the latter. It's not bad, there just wasn't enough meat there to sink my teeth into, and lacked that sense of either madcap frenzy or unbearable tension that some of her oth......more

Goodreads review by Trike on April 09, 2021

A story about people living in an era of deepfakes and remixes where anyone can take a movie star from the past and put them in a new film, or you can add your face to a character and become the star of any film. One girl is obsessed with old Hollywood musicals, performing in front of her video came......more

Goodreads review by fromcouchtomoon on November 14, 2015

A cliché of clichés is still cliché.......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on November 17, 2019

When I heard about James Dean being "reborn" using CGI in a new film, I immediately thought of this book. It's not a popular Connie Willis book, and I'd give it 3.5 stars if I could, because for all the subject matter is not lighthearted--it's set in a future where all films are just remakes of earl......more

Goodreads review by Craig on February 08, 2018

This is my favorite Connie Willis book, though I'm sure I'm almost alone in that opinion. I felt that she hit the points she was trying to make flawlessly throughout, I enjoyed the characters and the situations and the pace, and there was a perfect balance of pathos and humor. And I love old movies......more