Titanic

Winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize.

Cecilia Corrigan's first book, Titanic, is an epic love poem depicting the eternal gothic romance between man and machine. Titanic's protagonist is Alan Turing, cracker of codes and father of artificial intelligence. Turing escapes his frustrated love life and tragic death into the safe haven of virtual reality. The setting shifts from Snow White's forest to Ludwig Wittgenstein's seminar at Cambridge, amid iMessage chats and appearances by a cast of thrilling guest stars, including Frank O'Hara, Spike and Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Julianne Moore's BMW. Titanic: collide with destiny!