# Technology takes over in Joanna Kavenna’s distressingly dystopian, relevant ‘Zed’

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/technology-takes-over-in-joanna-kavennas-distressingly-dystopian-relevant-zed/
- Published: 2020-01-14T09:45:56-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

The future is complicated. But that isn’t why Joanna Kavenna’s new dystopian novel “Zed” (Doubleday, 336 pp., ★★★½ out of four stars) triggers an unsettling buzz inside your brain that lasts long after the last page. What’s troubling is that this technology-gone-wrong nightmare feels like a plausible eventuality of today’s most intrusive technological issues. The story begins a few years from now in London, where corporate exec George Mann murders his wife and two young sons before heading to a nearby pub. The city’s vast network of security cameras locates Mann, but the robotic law enforcement Anti-Terror Droid (ANT) sent to arrest him mistakenly kills an innocent bystander. […] Click here to view original web page at www.usatoday.com