The Uncanny Valley Club

Henry King manages Quinn Corp, a robotics company, but he'd rather spend his time with his vintage car, and his house full of vintage memorabilia. He often chases down the self-drive cars to nudge them off the road causing them to spin off into a kerbside crash. When Henry purchases a sex robot to treat a medical condition-at the encouragement of his friend Vince, who owns his own sex doll, and his therapist, who sells sex dolls-it changes who he is, how he feels about himself, and how he treats the women in his life. Henry struggles in his life trying to connect the two worlds of robots and humans, fiction and reality, lust and hate until it all comes falling apart. Set in the mid-21st century, The Uncanny Valley Club asks the question, can the way we relate to robots influence the way we treat each other? And by extension, can the way we treat each other online, change how we treat each other in reality. Treading the psychological path between human and robot relationships, The Uncanny Valley Club is a fast-paced speculative fiction novel by Julie Proudfoot, author of The Neighbour and winner of the Seizure Viva La Novella Prize.