Blueprints of the Afterlife

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"Take every high-voltage future shock you can imagine about life as it's shaping up in the twenty-first century, process it through one of the smartest and funniest and weirdly compassionate sensibilities you'll find on this crazy planet at this crazy moment, and you get a novel named Blueprints of the Afterlife. This guy Ryan Boudinot is tiie WiitiLeaics of tiie Zeitgeist."
—Robert Oien Butler, author of A/e//
It is the future. The end of the world is no more than a distorted memory. A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America's cities. Medical care is supplied by networked nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can be hacked. Abby Fogg is a film archivist with a niggling feeling that her life is not her own. And she's right Al Skinner is a former mercenary for the Boeing Army, who's dragged his war baggage behind him for nearly a century Woo-jin Kan is a virtuoso dishwasher with the Hotel and Restaurant Management Olympics medal to prove it. Over them... Tovább

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"Take every high-voltage future shock you can imagine about life as it's shaping up in the twenty-first century, process it through one of the smartest and funniest and weirdly compassionate sensibilities you'll find on this crazy planet at this crazy moment, and you get a novel named Blueprints of the Afterlife. This guy Ryan Boudinot is tiie WiitiLeaics of tiie Zeitgeist."
—Robert Oien Butler, author of A/e//
It is the future. The end of the world is no more than a distorted memory. A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America's cities. Medical care is supplied by networked nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can be hacked. Abby Fogg is a film archivist with a niggling feeling that her life is not her own. And she's right Al Skinner is a former mercenary for the Boeing Army, who's dragged his war baggage behind him for nearly a century Woo-jin Kan is a virtuoso dishwasher with the Hotel and Restaurant Management Olympics medal to prove it. Over them all hovers a mysterious man named Dirk Bickle who puts people in the right places at the right times—and it all culminates in a full-scale replica of Manhattan under construction in Puget Sound. Blueprints of the Afteriife is a tour de force—part George Saunders, part Philip K. Dick—delivering bracing intelligence about who we are, why we're here, and what Ted Williams has to look forward to when he's defrosted.
"It is incredibly fun to watch Ryan Boudinot unspool his COOl«
twisted imagination
in Blueprints of the Afterlife. Someone should warn him not to give away fantastic ideas at the frantic rate he does. But then again, he might have an infinite supply ' —Steve Hely, author of How / Became a Famous Novelist
"Wildly imaginative, smart, funny, and hopefully not prophetic.
Blueprints of the Afterlife brings to mind Vonnegut, and finds Boudinot at the top of his game as a young writer to watch." —Jonathan Ewison, author of West of Here Vissza