Juliette Aubert-Affholder Book order (chronological)

Everything in QualityLand is geared towards optimizing your life. QualityPartner identifies your ideal mate, earworm personal assistants get you where you need to go and android drones know you need a six pack of beer at the end of a long day even before you crave one. Humans, robots and algorithms co-exist, everything is seamlessly corporatised, stratified and monetized. Your very name reveals much of what we need to know about you and your profile discloses the rest. Peter Jobless is a down and out metal press operator, dumped by his long term girlfriend when she is alerted to a better option on her QualityPad. But Peter has another problem - he seems to be the only one noticing that his fellow Qualityland robot citizens are experiencing an existential crisis. There is a drone who's afraid to fly. A sex droid with erectile dysfunction. A combat robot with PTSD. Instructed to destroy these malfunctioning A.I., Peter starts to suspect the technology that rules us all has a flaw, perhaps a fatal one. Not only that, these robots might be his only friends...

Un homme ordinaire reçoit de nombreux appels destinés à une célébrité et se prend au jeu ; un acteur de cinéma ne reçoit plus d'appels et commence à douter de sa carrière ; un richissime écrivain de livres de sagesse renie tout ce qu'il a professé jusqu'alors ; une femme décide de mourir, et se révolte contre l'écrivain qui l'a inventée ; un écrivain de romans policiers se perd en Asie centrale où son portable ne fonctionne plus ; un cadre supérieur gagne, grâce à son portable, le pouvoir de ne plus se trouver là où on l'imagine ; et l'acteur du début, cherchant enfin l'anonymat, envisage d'utiliser son double... Avec la plume incisive qu'on lui connaît, Daniel Kehlmann compose une mosaïque joyeuse et ironique de notre société où les moyens de communication remettent en question le lieu même du réel - tandis que la course à la renommée fait tourner la tête à plus d'un. Un allègre divertissement littéraire plein d'autodérision.

Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s brilliant comic novel revolves around the meeting of two colossal geniuses of the Enlightenment.Late in the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the aristocratic naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, negotiates jungles, voyages down the Orinoco River, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores and measures every cave and hill he comes across. The other, the reclusive and barely socialized mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, can prove that space is curved without leaving his home. Terrifyingly famous and wildly eccentric, these two polar opposites finally meet in Berlin in 1828, and are immediately embroiled in the turmoil of the post-Napoleonic world.