The Hard Problem of Cover Bands (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Independently Published, 2026

9798277882733

Série : Livre 7 sur 7 - The Bands That Never Were

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Paperback. Are you conscious right now?Are you sure?Garrett plays piano in a cover band. He's competent, professional, and increasingly uncertain whether he's actually conscious during performances. This would be concerning if he were alone in his crisis, but his entire band is having the same realization.They're not creating. They're reproducing. Playing songs written by other people, arrangements they've performed a thousand times, for audiences who mostly aren't listening. Somewhere along the way, they've stopped being present for their own lives. Or maybe they were never present to begin with.What follows is a tour through the varieties of consciousness-or lack thereof: Dennis, who reorganizes overhead bins because bags stored "on their sides" create "more overhead" (he's very literal)A flight attendant who deliberately pretends not to understand "stevia" for 83 minutesKyle, a 3 AM waiter who takes perfect orders while apparently asleepMadison, who takes 23 photos of a "spontaneous moment" and argues this makes her MORE authenticA smart speaker who may or may not be conscious and definitely can't tellA GPS that knows their life trajectory better than they doDominic, a hotel breakfast attendant who tells the same family trauma story to every guest and remembers none of themMartin, who resets every ten minutes and asks "am I conscious?" repeatedly without remembering the answerVic's unconscious alter-ego who plays bass brilliantly while sleepwalking and speaks in fortune-cookie profunditiesThomas the mime, who performs the same routines for twenty-two years and is genuinely present maybe once a monthAs the band accumulates examples of questionable consciousness-including their own-they're forced to confront an uncomfortable possibility: maybe consciousness isn't what makes us human. Maybe it's barely there at all. And maybe that's okay.THE HARD PROBLEM OF COVER BANDS is a novel about mimicry, presence, and the suspicion that we're all just cover bands performing learned behaviors while wondering if anyone's actually home.Perfect for readers who enjoy: Literary fiction with humor and heartPhilosophical questions wrapped in absurd comedyEnsemble casts of lovably neurotic charactersBooks that make you laugh and then make you think (and then make you laugh about thinking)Stories about artists, performers, and creative crisesExplorations of consciousness that don't require a philosophy degree This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Titre
The Hard Problem of Cover Bands (Paperback)
Auteur
Jm Heller
Éditeur
Independently Published
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9798277882733
Série
Livre 7 sur 7: The Bands That Never Were

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