A Strange and Brilliant Light: Winner of the Writers’ Guild Best First Novel Award (Hardback)

Important ideas are wrapped in an absorbing, character-driven novel that's also a thought-provoking consideration of the ways we might cope with something that is already happening all around us. - LISA TUTTLE, The Guardian

Mind-bending - CAROLE STIVERS, bestselling author of THE MOTHER CODE

A disquieting take on Big Tech's plans for the future of work - GWYNETH JONES, author of the Arthur C. Clarke-winning BOLD AS LOVE

If you like small, intimate fiction that asks very big questions, this is the perfect novel for you - FANFIADDICT

Smoothly written - FINANCIAL TIMES

a beautifully written, thought provoking novel - MUSE'S BOOK JOURNAL

Fans of relational narratives will enjoy the interactions of the three protagonists while there is also intellectual AI debate for those science fiction readers more drawn to ideas over people - SFBOOK REVIEWS

Lee gives the reader a massive amount to ponder as well as delivering a brilliantly written and absorbing story about some very real people - BLUE BOOK BALLOON

Incredibly thought provoking - A LITTLE HAZE BOOK BLOG

This is a thoughtful, interior-focused story...like Ishiguro's Klara And The Sun - SFX MAGAZINE

A slickly written and enjoyable novel - SFCROWSNEST

Thoughtful... provides much food for thought - PAR SEC MAGAZINE

Lee has created a story that feels relevant and poignant for a world on the brink of automating so many parts of our working lives - BOOKS IN STEEL CITY

A thought-provoking novel - THERESA SMITH WRITES

Eli Lee can write description and emotion beautifully - BOOKS BY YOUR BEDSIDE

Eli Lee has done a remarkable job revealing the human side of AI . . . Often bleak, A Strange and Brilliant Light is also sad, hopeful, funny, and brilliant, such that I expect to see it on a lot of award lists. It will, I hope, inspire many to think long and hard about what we want our future to be like - THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION REVIEW

Often bleak, A Strange and Brilliant Light is also sad, hopeful, funny, and brilliant, such that I expect to see it on a lot of award lists. This quiet, thoughtful novel, almost entirely led by flawed but amazing women, has a lot to say about the world we're about to be living in. It will, I hope, inspire many to think long and hard about what we want our future to be like. - BSFA