Charlie Brooker announces the authors for the 'Black Mirror' book and we're ready to be terrified

And they are going to break you with prose.
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We've known for a while that Charlie Brooker's dystopian brain-baby was coming out in all new dead-tree format in February next year, but beyond that we didn't have many details. Except of course that it will be the stuff of Facebook-scrolling-induced nightmares.

Now meet the puppeteers of your fear.

You can read the full statement from the publisher, but it transpires Black Mirror Vol. I will be an anthology of stories edited by Brooker, and he has selected his agents of emotional destruction.

Cory Doctorow, Claire North, and Sylvain Neuvel are the lucky three selected to tear your sanity apart like dogs fighting over a wet paper napkin. They seem pretty stoked about it too.

They're all pretty pedigree writers too, Doctorow is a New York Times bestseller while North and Neuvel are Carnegie Award-nominated.

So get hyped for the book guaranteed to ravage your soul, but in a fun, well-written way.

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