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Blueprints of the Afterlife

Blueprints of the Afterlife

Boudinot, Ryan

Paperback

Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $21.00

ISBN10: 0802170919
ISBN13: 9780802170910
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: Jan 3 2012
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
From the wickedly talented (Boston Globe) and darkly funny (New York Times Book Review) Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife is a tour de force.

It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called the Age of F***ed Up Shit. A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America. Medical care is supplied by open-source nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can be hacked.

Abby Fogg is a film archivist with a niggling feeling that her life is not really her own. She may be right. Al Skinner is a former mercenary for the Boeing Army, who's been dragging his war baggage behind him for nearly a century. Woo-jin Kan is a virtuoso dishwasher with the Hotel and Restaurant Management Olympics medals to prove it. Over them all hovers a mysterious man named Dirk Bickle, who sends all these characters to a full-scale replica of Manhattan under construction in Puget Sound. An ambitious novel that writes large the hopes and anxieties of our time--climate change, social strife, the depersonalization of the digital age--Blueprints of the Afterlife will establish Ryan Boudinot as an exceptional novelist of great daring.

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