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URL:https://www.societe-de-lecture.ch/events/sean-lusk-english/
SUMMARY:Sean Lusk (English)
DESCRIPTION:The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley: Is Artificial Intellige
 nce the child of 18th century clockwork?\n\nSean Lusk is a Scottish award-
 winning author\, winner of the 2015 Manchester Fiction Prize and the 2017 
 Fish Short Story Prize for Dead Souls\, inspired by a visit to Gogol’s h
 ouse in Moscow. He has worked as a gardener\, speechwriter\, diplomatic of
 ficial\, and policy advisor to the UK government and lived in England\, Pa
 kistan\, Egypt\, South Africa\, and Greece. The Second Sight of Zachary Cl
 oudesley ( Doubleday\, 2022 ) is his debut novel. Raised amongst the cogs 
 and springs of his father’s workshop\, Zachary Cloudesley grows up surro
 unded by strange and enchanting clockwork automata. The plot plunges the r
 eader into mid-eighteenth-century London\, Europe and the glitteringly exo
 tic climes of Ottoman-era Constantinople. Lusk’s imaginative journey mak
 es us think of Swiss watchmaking geniuses like Pierre Jaquet-Droz and his 
 son. In his talk\, Lusk will discuss the perils of getting lost in researc
 h when writing historical fiction as well as considering the role of 18th 
 century automata as a bridge from the age of alchemy to the gothic horror 
 of Frankenstein.\n\n 
LOCATION:Société de Lecture\, 11 Grand Rue\, Genève\, Suisse
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