Feed (2002) is a dystopian novel by M. T. (Matthew Tobin) Anderson
The novel depicts a future world in which the Internet has evolved into the "feed"; a computer network to which everyone's brain is directly connected by way of an implanted computer chip. Privacy has become a thing of the past. Corporations monitor and manipulate everyone's thoughts, peoples thoughts are interrupted by the mental equivalent of pop-up ads, and the government can even subpoena someone's memories.
The novel is a dark satire about corporate power , consumerism, information technology, and data mining carried to terrifying extremes.
Characters in Feed (in order of appearance)
- Titus (narrator)
- Link Arwaker
- Marty
- Calista
- Loga
- Quendy
- Violet Durn
- the Hacker from "the Coalition of pity"
- Titus' father
- Smell Factor (Titus' younger brother)
- Titus' mother
- Violet's father
- Nina -- Violet's computer-generated "FeedTech customer assistance representative".
Sections and Chapters of Feed
Note: All section and chapter titles are uncapitalized in the book and are therefore presented here the same way. Some of the percentage titles repeat, this is not a typographical error, but reflects the actual sequence of titles in the book.
- moon
- your face is not an organ
- impact
- juice
- the nose grid
- the moon is in the house of boring
- eden
- awake
- college try
- boring
- still boring
- missing the feed
- cache and carry
- night. and boring
- father
- salad days. w/sneeze guard
- the garden
- dead language
- release
- utopia
- normal
- undervalued truffle
- the others in mal
- nudging
- lose the chemise
- sniffling
- a new place
- the dimples of delglacey
- lift
- a question of moral
- observe the remarkable verdure
- a day in the country
- nudging again
- the real thing
- fight and flight
- so much to do
- seashore
- limbo and prayer
- flat hope
- our duty to the party
- slumberland
- 52.9%
- 87.3%
- 87.1%
- 87.1%
- 86.5%
- 52.0%
- 82.4%
- 80.9%
- 78.6%
- 77.8%
- 76.3%
- 76.2%
- 76.2%
- 59.3%
- 57.2%
- 54.1%
- 51.5%
- summertime
- the deep
- 4.6%
- 4.6%
Awards and Nominations