Author: neilsharpson

Neil Sharpson’s When the Sparrow Falls illuminates authoritarianism, complicity, and identity in the digital age, in a darkly-funny, frightening and touching story that recalls Philip K. Dick, John LaCarré and Kurt Vonnegut in equal measure. **Welcome to the Caspian Republic. The last bastion of true humanity in a world given over to artificial intelligence. Stray from the path towards anything “machine” and the state will correct you.** When propagandist Paulo Xirau dies, and is discovered to himself be a “machine”, State Security Agent Nikolai South is given a new assignment he could hardly want less: chaperone the widow, Lily, the…