Clubbing in the Future: Dark Factory | Sia at Every Book a Doorway

And of course, we have to talk about the experimental structure of this novel; the inclusion of ‘extras’ such as news articles and interviews with the main characters, the companion website for Dark Factory the club, music and social media woven in and out of the pages to make Dark Factory something as unique as the experience Ari and Max are trying to create. I never thought it was going to be gimmicky, and it isn’t in the slightest; what it does is blur the lines between fiction and reality even more than a good book usually does, leaving you with brief flashes of uncertainty as to whether Ari and the rest are really real or only fictional – and is there a difference, really, when experiencing fiction affects you as much as a ‘real’ experience would? If our realities are all subjective, and I experience Ari and Max and Felix and what they go through, then doesn’t that make them real in my own subjective reality?

I can almost hear Koja whispering Yes.

-SIA | EVERY BOOK A DOORWAY