Faith Gladwin grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada, and studied Political Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax. She now works at a museum, and in between research work and writing, she tries to keep her houseplants alive and safe from her cat, Cleo. She is the author of The Finalist.
At CrimeReads Gladwin tagged "five chilling novels set in the world of the arts, from theatre to isolated artistic retreats." One title on the list:
Ling Ling Huang, Immaculate ConceptionRead about the other entries on the list at CrimeReads.
From the past to the cutting-edge future of art, Ling Ling Huang’s Immaculate Conception follows two women in art school, caught in an obsessive, toxic friendship, as the public release of a tool that generates AI art instantly throwsthe scene into chaos. Mathilde is marked as a prodigy while Enka is struggling to keep up with her. In a drastic move, Enka throws herself into a new technology that allows the user to inhabit another person’s mind and absorb their emotions and memories, kicking off a twisted, addictive downward spiral between Enka and Mathilde.
Psychological and speculative, Immaculate Conception covers everything from trauma, the intersections of technology, capitalism, and art, to the way generative AI erodes creativity and community. It’s a sci-fi dystopian horror that’s only becoming more timely.
--Marshal Zeringue
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