![]() ![]() Mfso has threatened to write a "word-limit breaching review" of this, and greg's is pretty long too, once you hack into all his nested spoilers. i understand greg's difficulties in reviewing this, what with not wanting to give anything away, because this is a book constructed in such a careful way, it could only be spoiled by a careless reviewer. Isn't is awesome when a power outage eats your book review? i think so. Over 600 clones of an ancient pop singer's backup dancer. ![]() There are giant heads that appear in the sky. 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.īlueprints of the Afterlife alternates between a richly imagined future in which the apocalypse is a distant, hazy memory, and a present in which a man recounts his search for a secret organization bent on harnessing the brightest minds to control human destiny and life on earth. 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. Woo-jin Kan is a virtuoso dishwasher with the Hotel and Restaurant Management Olympics medals to prove it. Al Skinner is a former mercenary for the Boeing Army, who’s been dragging his war baggage behind him for nearly a century. ![]() Medical care is supplied by open-source nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can be hacked.Ībby 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. ![]()
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