Blueprints of the Afterlife
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.38 (893 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802170919 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 430 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
She may be right. 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. 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. 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. 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 a
"One of my favorite reads of 2012" according to John Miller. Blueprints of the Afterlife is a carefully constructed and fully detailed account of dire future events, how they all got started, who started them, as well as the end of the human race. It's not your typical Armageddon/dystopia story though. It's a . Wombat the Bookworm said Like a magic growing animal capsule of the future SciFi apocalypse. Blueprints is a strange book, non-linear and bewildering. It tells the story of the fall of civilization in a war between humans and robots, but also of a monstrous glacier that traveled around North America, ripping cities up wholesale, and of a sec. Mind. Blown. Have you ever read a book and realized it perfectly crystallizes the feeling of the times? Of everything I've read over the last decade (and a lot of change) of my adult life, this book is the only one I finished and immediately wondered if this was
Boudinot’s madcap world and mastery of various voices evoke Douglas Adams or George Saunders, but his novel is a work of sheer originality, readability, and joy. Dishwasher Woo-jin Kan, a self-aware dullard suffering from a crippling overabundance of empathy, is haunted by a reappearing corpse. From Booklist Boudinot returns to the comic, inventive form that garnered him attention for Misconception (2009), this time anticipating dark times to come. Narcissistic actor Nethan Jordan recounts his adventures in a bawdy hit TV series. And running throughout are excerpts from a recorded interview with Luke Piper, creator of the Bionet, a neurotransmitted Web connection that unites everyone in all their uproarious despair. --Jonathan Fullmer . Mysterious Dirk Bickle offers Abby Fogg a job recovering important data from one-time pop star Kylee Asparagus