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Blueprints Of The Afterlife

Ryan Boudinot

ebook | Pages: 305 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 2147 Users | 372 Reviews

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Title	:	Blueprints Of The Afterlife
Author	:	Ryan Boudinot
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 305 pages
Published	:	January 3rd 2012 by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Dystopia. Fantasy

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A tour de force novel from the "wickedly talented" (The Boston Globe) and "darkly funny" author of Misconception (The New York Times Book Review).

Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award

It is the afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called "the Age of Fucked 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 Restaurant and Hotel Management Olympic 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.

"Duct-tape yourself to the front of this roller coaster and enjoy the ride." --The New York Times

"Challenging, messy and funny fiction for readers looking for something way beyond space operas and swordplay." --Kirkus Reviews

"The absurdities are cleverly crafted and highly entertaining. Imaginative [and] heartfelt." --Hannah Calkins, Shelf Awareness

"Ingenious . . . Frenzied, hilarious, and paranoid . . . A bracing dystopian romp through contemporary dread." --Publishers Weekly

"Probably the strangest post-apocalyptic novel in ages." --io9

"What an inspired mindfuck of a book!" --City Paper (Baltimore)

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Original Title:	Blueprints of the Afterlife
ISBN:	0802194745 (ISBN13: 9780802194749)
Edition Language:	English URL http://blueprintsoftheafterlife.com/
Characters:	Abby Fogg, Al Skinner, Woo-jin Kan, Dirk Bickle
Literary Awards:	Philip K. Dick Award Nominee (2013)

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Ratings: 3.69 From 2147 Users | 372 Reviews

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here is my page!isn't is awesome when a power outage eats your book review?? i think so.let me try this again. 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.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 am going to try to do this

I almost gave this book four stars but I just couldn't do it. It's so flawed, the latter half in particular was such a letdown, but the whole package, the haecceity, is winsome enough that it's hard to deny it top marks.When I first started this book I fell for its particular haecceity pretty hard. I was in love! I woke up each morning excited because I would get to read it on the subway. It wasn't any one particular thing that Boudinot did just right, it was the whole gestalt, which my mind

January 21st addition to the review:Ryan Boudinot sent me the page of the manuscript that mentions Minor Threat! How awesome is that! And now for the review as it was written a few weeks ago:She yearned for plot but instead absurdity after absurdity had been thrown before her, absurdities that alluded to obscured purposesA true bit of historical fact that maybe my goodreads friends of the Northwest know, but which I didn't. Seattle was originally called New York. And then it was called New York

Absurdist romp.Jesus! This fucking book! So many interesting things to think about, although I agree with other reviewers that some sections felt pointless (I'm still not sure what the point of the real-world zombie-killing video game was) or indulgently juvenile (clone orgy! the pop of a penis coming out of a sex doll!), but over-all the book provides so much interesting food for thought that I'm willing to overlook the sections that had me giving Boudinot the side-eye and being like "How

Championship dishwasher Woo-jin Kan is told by his future self that he must quit his job at Il Italian Joint and write a book called How to Love People so that The Last Dude, who sits atop an Arizona mesa, can read this book and spell out for any onlookers what it was that brought about the end of humanity. It starts there and gets weirder. Marauding sentient glaciers, floating celestial heads, miniature software development monks - that sort of thing.Boudinot is both a hilariously gifted

This book started so well. It was a coherent, if a bit wacky, story with a strong protagonist, Woo-jin Kan, that seemed to be going somewhere what with finding the same dead girl in the same field on the way home from work every day. And then everything fell apart and that whole A+B=C storytelling thing got thrown out the window because that's so last century, that's so pre-FUS.When I figured out toward the end of reading the book that the author had done TED talks, it all started to make sense

Do not fight this book: Let it take you where its going, and let it show you what it wants to show you. Youll be glad you did.~ by Samantha HollowayI went along for the ride and tried not to fight this book. But I got exhausted. It's humorous on the bizarro genre. Having read High-Rise and The Man in the High Castle, I enjoyed those reads more.