“Ewan Morrison’s harrowing and beautiful new novel, For Emma, is an early warning system for the future. In that way, a worthy successor to Easy Travel to Other Planets, Neuromancer, and, of course, Brave New World.”

“For Emma is a brilliant book that you will devour. Its compelling exploration of love, loss, and the haunting power of technology and morality makes it a must-read, delving into the highly relevant and intriguing intersection of humanity and advanced AI.”

"Heartbreaking and harrowing, this is a suspenseful journey into a family's tortured past and its nightmarish present. Ewan Morrison's attention to the details of parental love and responsibility make this an unforgettable book."

“Hold onto your seats for a cracking good ending, which I did not see coming, yet which I felt I should have seen coming – the best kind.”

“A devastatingly accomplished and cinema-literate nightmare of culture-induced and morally bereft psychotic breakdown: the state in which we are all now registered, observed and disenfranchised. The poetry of paranoia, here, is so compelling, that we are forced to conclude that the very act of tale-telling, authorship, is being dictated by a terrifying otherness. Now read on. Please.”

“Compelling, moving and terribly plausible.”

“For Emma is an astonishing, bold novel… heart-rending, but also complex, visceral and angry… unlike anything I have read before – a sympathetic, yet abject account of violence. Morrison’s eyes are on the horizon. This is the novel for our times, a mordant, coruscating yet exhilarating account of where we will be, sooner than we think.”

“For Emma is as disturbing as it is convincing, a tale of love and guilt and grief, and an apt tract for out chaotic times.”

“A grieving father becomes an avenging angel. A great novel which captures and questions our times. I loved this cinematic and compassionate book.”

"For Emma is a haunting work, resonating and echoing for a long time after reading. Although concerned with AI, it is a human book, both grief soaked and love filled. In For Emma, Morrison has created a true masterpiece, one that endures as testament to his concern for our endangered humanity."

“If there is a braver novelist in Scotland than Ewan Morrison I don’t know who it is. The scenario Morrison depicts in his latest work is terrifyingly possible, perhaps just around the corner, or even already here. He exposes the tension between our desire for the possible benefits of AI and our instinctive resistance to its dehumanising effects. For Emma is a fast-paced techno-thriller, but it’s also a love story about the despair that failed love brings. And maybe, too, it’s a warning, that in the name of progress we may be powering up the instruments of our own destruction as a species.”

“A stunning book. Deeply touching. A beautifully crafted page-turner. I love how we're sucked into a dark eloquent vortex, part gothic, part sci-fi and detective novel, asking essential questions about AI, but also what it means to love and to stay alive. It has stayed with me deeply, particularly those passages about the father and daughter, the intimacy of grief. As relevant as Frankenstein.”

"A brilliant, breath-taking book. For Emma is at once a gripping techno-thriller, a chillingly plausible near-future nightmare, and a moving meditation on loss and grief. Morrison expertly weaves unreliable first-person narratives together with scenes of nail-biting tension, sudden violence, dream-like paranoid diatribes, and redacted horrors in blacked out text. Without flinching, he never lets go of the humanity we stand to lose as technology accelerates. Reading For Emma is a terrifying glimpse into a dystopia so close, we can't avoid it.”