Thought provoking and necessary * Guardian * Briskly and breezily, it [ 12 Bytes] joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers -- Claire Armitstead * Observer * 12 punchy, fact-laden and witty essays... Her writing engulfs you in lucid, fairytale-like realities that take you on gender-bending and time-warped explorations of religion, love, sex, and sexual identity. -- Charlotte Cripps * Independent * An unusual and entertaining read...[ 12 Bytes] is inflected with the same delightful, dry humour as the rest of her work... With its imaginative, insightful and wide-ranging essays, 12 Bytes will undoubtedly prompt readers to begin their own circlings around AI. -- Laura Grace Simpkins * New Scientist * Aspects of this AI future are frightening...[ and] for any non-scientist wanting to understand the challenges and possibilities of this brave new world, I can't think of a more engaging place to start. -- Stephanie Merritt * Observer * Quite brilliant. * i * This is, among other things, a very funny book... we are hardly short of dystopias, fictional and otherwise. Winterson's approach is much richer and more fun: a kind of comparative mythology, where the hype and ideology of cutting-edge tech is read through the lens of far older stories. -- Steven Poole * Spectator * [ Winterson's] essays...are agile, fascinating, richly varied and beautifully idiosyncratic. -- Joanna Kavenna * Literary Review * Winterson... is always passionate and provocative. -- Johanna Thomas-Corr * New Statesman * Refreshingly optimistic. -- Steven Poole * Guardian *
