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Zusatztext 68207682 Klappentext 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. Praise for "Blueprints of the Afterlife" "A fierce literary imagination, building the kinds of worlds that William Gibson used to write before he discovered the present; it is warmed by the kind of offbeat, riffing humor that has suffused the works of Neal Stephenson and Gary Shteyngart, with Chuck Palahniuk's cartoonish gore and Neil Gaiman's creepy otherworlds blended in. . . . Duct-tape yourself to the front of this roller coaster and enjoy the ride."--John Schwartz, "The New York Times" "What an inspired mindfuck of a book. Ryan Boudinot's "Blueprints of the Afterlife" is a post-apocalyptic satirical explosion of a novel. . . . Fans of China Mieville, Kurt Vonnegut, and, say, Terry Gilliam may gravitate toward Boudinot, but his out-of-control imagination is all his own."--Andrea Appleton, "Baltimore City Paper" "The best science fiction takes what we know about technology and humanity and extends it. . . . "Blueprints of the Afterlife" does just this--only instead of space stations and robots, [Boudinot] clocks the way our perceptions and experiences have already been shaped by technology. . . . "Blueprints" calls to mind Jonathan Lethem's recent "Chronic City" and the work of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, as much as it does sci-fi predecessors like Philip K. Dick or even Cory Doctorow. But while it's plenty easy to find other novels to compare "Blueprints" to, the book offers a completely singular reading experience."--Alison Hallett, "The Portland Mercury" "Digital where "Brave New World" is merely analog, "Blueprints of the Afterlife" makes both "1984" and the Book of Revelation seem like yesterday's news."--Tom Robbins, author of "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" "Boudinot's novel . . . has a diverse and rich family of ingredients. We might speak of certain literary components, such as the work of Kurt Vonnegut, the work of Richard Brautigan, the work of Tom Robbins, and/or the work of Haruki Murakami. . . . A mere descriptionn Zusammenfassung 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 Restauran...
