Ungirls

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Kindle Edition, 52 pages

Published by Amazon Original Stories.

5 stars (1 review)

In the near future, lab-grown sex dolls are the pleasure toy of choice in this disturbing and provocative short story from Lauren Beukes, the bestselling author of The Shining Girls.

Actor and sex worker Nats is experienced at putting on a show. However, her new gig supplying intimate whispers for growgirls takes her to a place darker and lonelier than she could have ever imagined. The lab-grown dolls can respond to pleasure or pain; their synthetic heads contain only the simplest AI to prevent any pesky robo sex doll uprisings. But just because growgirls don’t have a brain, doesn’t mean they don’t have a voice…

Ungirls is part of Disorder, a collection of six short stories of living nightmares, chilling visions, and uncanny imagination that explore a world losing its balance in terrifying ways. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single disorienting sitting.

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reviewed Ungirls by Lauren Beukes

Ungirls

5 stars

Whoa, I was not prepared for this one. I had just finished a 600-page epic fantasy slog, and I was looking for something short to read at bedtime as a change of pace: "Hey, Lauren Beukes, Zoo City and The Shining Girls were great, I'll grab this one!"

Ungirls is a chillingly plausible peek at the outcome of the invention of vat-grown "sex bodies", complete with all-too-realistic disgusting subreddits and a Jordan Peterson clone.

Content warnings: explicit imagery of sex, violence, sex violence, pedophilia, extreme misogyny, doxxing, stalking

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