QualityLand

Kling, Marc-Uwe. QualityLand (also Qualityland). 2017. Jamie Searle Romanelli, translator (from the German). Grand Central Publishing (formerly Warner Books), 2020. As part of Hachette Book Group,[1] the physical location of GCP would be New York City.[2][3]

Mentioned by Rachel Cordasco in "The SF in Translation Universe #7" entry, SFRA Review 50.1 (Winter 2020): pdf at link.[4] Described as a "German dystopian satire" sending up "21st-century consumer-driven technology-obsessed capitalism by taking such innovations as driverless cars, wireless-adapted glasses, and a gargantuan online store (TheShop) to their extremes," in, we will somewhat pedantically add, the standard satiric move that Y. Zamyatin called "reductio ad finem": extrapolating to an extreme.

Reviewed briefly by Kirkus[5] and The Guardian, with notes the satire — not exactly a novel — is "Set against the backdrop of an election run-off between a far-right demagogue and a low-polling android advocating universal basic income," and notes that "the plot turns on the Kafkaesque travails of a scrap-metal merchant, Peter Jobless, who struggles to persuade TheShop, 'the world’s most popular online retailer', to take back a pink dolphin-shaped vibrator delivered in error."[6] H.C. Newton on a 9 January 2021 blog post on "The Irresponsible Reader" site gives as a second paragraph of "Book Blurb," apparently Newton's

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