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'Cozy dystopia': Calgary author's tale about a sentient vacuum cleaner has become Canada's bestselling novel

Calgary Herald · September 3, 2026 at 10:56 a.m.

In 1980, Glenn Dixon read The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M.

Disch.

It was about sentient household appliances, including a vacuum cleaner, that go on a quest to find their owner.

“I still have that magazine, I read i

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