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Sensation

Sensation

Mamatas, Nick

Paperback

Series: Spectacular Fiction

Science FictionGeneral Fiction

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ISBN10: 1604863544
ISBN13: 9781604863543
Publisher: Pm Pr
Published: May 1 2011
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
When Julia Hernandez leaves her husband, shoots a real estate developer, and then vanishes without a trace, she slips out of the world she knew and into the Simulacrum--a place where human history is both guided and thwarted by the conflict between a species of anarchist wasps and a collective of hyperintelligent spiders. When Julia's ex-husband Raymond spots her in a grocery store he doesn't usually patronize, he's soon drawn into an underworld of radical political gestures where Julia is the new media sensation of both this world and the Simulacrum. Told ultimately from the collective point of view of another species, this allegorical novel plays with the elements of the Simulacrum apparent in real life--media reports, business speak, blog entries, text messages, psychological-evaluation forms, and the lies lovers tell one another--and poses a fascinating idea that displaces human beings from the center of the universe and makes them simply the pawns of two warring species.

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