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Fred Lunzer

Biography

Fred Lunzer

Fred Lunzer is a writer based in London, with a background in AI research and strategy. He grew up in London and Tokyo, and speaks Japanese.
He writes literary fiction novels and short stories, as well as essays and reviews. And he gives talks on AI in the arts.
His debut novel, SIKE, is published by Macmillan / Celadon, and focuses on a couple navigating the first year of their relationship with an AI psychotherapist.

Fred Lunzer

Books by Fred Lunzer

Sike
by Fred Lunzer - Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychology, Romance

Adrian earns his living writing lyrics for rappers he never meets, and finds success with a hit song about his own fruitless search for love. Adrian decides it’s time to try Sike: the new lauded and elite AI psychotherapy app that tracks your every move and emotion, and guides you toward mental contentment. He soon falls for Maquie, a smart and pragmatic venture capitalist scouring London’s tech scene for the next business boom. She wants to find a business as successful as Sike, and yet she is also one of the holdouts who refuse to use it. Shifting between Adrian and Maquie’s perspectives as it tracks the fraught first year of their relationship, SIKE is a story of two people wrestling with connection, identity, anxiety, success and the limits of our obsession with self-analysis and awareness.