Friday, July 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 **Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the** _**New York Times**_ **bestselling author of** _**Horror Movie.**_ Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast. To sum up in Julia’s own words: “You want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.” In a word, yes. But he’s not _dead_ dead. Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which he’s trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn’t remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He can’t remember. Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls “Bernie” from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he was—and who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality. _Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep_ is a heady, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today. **Paul Tremblay** is the multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed, _New York Times_ bestselling author of eight previous novels (_Horror Movie_, _The Pallbearers Club_, _Survivor Song_, _The Cabin at the End of the World_, _Disappearance at Devil's Rock_, _A Head Full of Ghosts_, _No Sleep Till Wonderland_, and _The Little Sleep_); a middle-grade novel, _Another_; and two short fiction collections (_The Beast You Are_ and _Growing Things_). He lives outside of Boston with his family. **Sarah Langan** is a three-time Stoker Award winner who's novels have made best of the year lists at NPR, Newsweek, The Irish Times, AARP, and PW. She has an MFA from Columbia University, an MS in Environmental Health Science/ Toxicology from NYU, and lives in Los Angeles with her family. Her sixth novel TRAD WIFE is out in September.