{"product_id":"public-access-afterworld-1","title":"Public Access Afterworld","description":"\u003cb\u003e A mysterious realm on the other side of our screens. A dark force that draws victims into its static. The unlikely hero called to save them and herself from this electric hell. \u003ci\u003ePublic Access Afterworld\u003c\/i\u003e is the profound, binge-all-night, headrush of a novel by the celebrated filmmaker of \u003ci\u003eI Saw the TV Glow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Beautiful, funny, and scathing . . . I stayed up all night binge-reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e--SenLinYu\u003cbr\u003e\"Gave me a vertiginous thrill I haven't encountered since David Mitchell.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Torrey Peters\u003cbr\u003e\"Psychedelic horror of the first order.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Grady Hendrix\u003cbr\u003e\"Heart-wrenching, hilarious, visionary, and so damned smart, this novel is a major work by a major writer.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Paul Tremblay\u003cbr\u003e\"Utterly hypnotic.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Lev Grossman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFind the receiver. Make it real.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 5:35pm on September 3rd, 1988, Dallas weatherman Ray \"Can You Say Sunshine\" Davino makes passing reference to Public Access Afterworld during a rambling monologue, right before he puts a gun to his head on live television and pulls the trigger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn June 12th, 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin's basement to watch TV's analog-to-digital transition. But in the static that follows, Erin witnesses surreal broadcasts from a pirate TV network called Public Access Afterworld and their lives are changed forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeventeen years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill's bleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing an endless stream of horrific videos. But then a young streamer begins to crop up in her feed calling out to Public Access Afterworld. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut what \u003ci\u003eis \u003c\/i\u003ePublic Access Afterworld? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning decades and realities, with an unforgettable ensemble of outcasts and nerds, especially the messy but wholly relatable Bethany who must overcome paranoia and self-doubt to transform into a hero of our times, \u003ci\u003ePublic Access Afterworld \u003c\/i\u003ewill have you reading through the night and rooting for its characters to survive. A mesmerizing mashup of speculative fiction, horror, and conspiracy, it marks the arrival of a major new force in contemporary fiction by a groundbreaking filmmaker who's been compared to David Lynch and Paul Thomas Anderson.","brand":"Random House Large Print Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48515625517305,"sku":"9798217509386","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/1811\/7625\/files\/imageloader_da196fa8-c578-4465-8d54-6649b4508a17.jpg?v=1781208151","url":"https:\/\/hookeandplotte.com\/products\/public-access-afterworld-1","provider":"Hooke and Plotte Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}