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Tomorrow and Tomorrow

By Tom Sweterlitsch

By Tom Sweterlitsch

By Tom Sweterlitsch

By Tom Sweterlitsch

By Tom Sweterlitsch
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By Tom Sweterlitsch
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May 05, 2015 | ISBN 9780425275412

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Jul 10, 2014 | ISBN 9780698142701

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    About Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    In this “wild mash-up of Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, and William S. Burroughs”*, a man who uses virtual reality to escape the horror of his dystopian world becomes obsessed with a mystery that could drive him mad.

    Pittsburgh is John Dominic Blaxton’s home even though the city has been uninhabitable ruin and ash for the past decade. The Pittsburgh Dominic lives in is the Archive, an immersive virtual reconstruction of the city’s buildings, parks, and landmarks, as well as the people who once lived there. Including Dominic’s wife and unborn child.

    When he’s not reliving every recorded moment with his wife in an endless cycle of desperation and despair, Dominic investigates mysterious deaths preserved in the Archive before Pittsburgh’s destruction. His latest cold case is the apparent murder of a woman whose every appearance is deliberately being deleted from the Archive.

    Obsessed with uncovering this woman’s identity and what happened to her, Dominic follows a trail from the virtual world into reality. But finding the truth buried deep within an illusion means risking his sanity and his very existence…

    “Tomorrow and Tomorrow is many things: a near-future cyberpunk thriller in the tradition of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling; a funny, gloomy meditation on technology and mental illness in the tradition of Phillip K. Dick and J.G. Ballard; a cynically outrageous mystery less in the tradition of Chandler than that of James Ellroy. A bleak, gorgeous romp through a pornographic and political American id. If books like this are the future of fiction, I’m not afraid for books at all.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    *Stewart O’Nan

    About Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    In this “wild mash-up of Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, and William S. Burroughs”*, a man who uses virtual reality to escape the horror of his dystopian world becomes obsessed with a mystery that could drive him mad.

    Pittsburgh is John Dominic Blaxton’s home even though the city has been uninhabitable ruin and ash for the past decade. The Pittsburgh Dominic lives in is the Archive, an immersive virtual reconstruction of the city’s buildings, parks, and landmarks, as well as the people who once lived there. Including Dominic’s wife and unborn child.

    When he’s not reliving every recorded moment with his wife in an endless cycle of desperation and despair, Dominic investigates mysterious deaths preserved in the Archive before Pittsburgh’s destruction. His latest cold case is the apparent murder of a woman whose every appearance is deliberately being deleted from the Archive.

    Obsessed with uncovering this woman’s identity and what happened to her, Dominic follows a trail from the virtual world into reality. But finding the truth buried deep within an illusion means risking his sanity and his very existence…

    “Tomorrow and Tomorrow is many things: a near-future cyberpunk thriller in the tradition of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling; a funny, gloomy meditation on technology and mental illness in the tradition of Phillip K. Dick and J.G. Ballard; a cynically outrageous mystery less in the tradition of Chandler than that of James Ellroy. A bleak, gorgeous romp through a pornographic and political American id. If books like this are the future of fiction, I’m not afraid for books at all.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    *Stewart O’Nan

    About Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    “Strong debut…vivid and compelling.” —Publishers Weekly

    Yesterday cannot last forever…

    A decade has passed since the city of Pittsburgh was reduced to ash.
               
    While the rest of the world has moved on, losing itself in the noise of a media-glutted future, survivor John Dominic Blaxton remains obsessed with the past. Grieving for his wife and unborn child who perished in the blast, Dominic relives his lost life by immersing in the Archive—a fully interactive digital reconstruction of Pittsburgh, accessible to anyone who wants to visit the places they remember and the people they loved.
               
    Dominic investigates deaths recorded in the Archive to help close cases long since grown cold, but when he discovers glitches in the code surrounding a crime scene—the body of a beautiful woman abandoned in a muddy park that he’s convinced someone tried to delete from the Archive—his cycle of grief is shattered.
               
    With nothing left to lose, Dominic tracks the murder through a web of deceit that takes him from the darkest corners of the Archive to the ruins of the city itself, leading him into the heart of a nightmare more horrific than anything he could have imagined.

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    About Tom Sweterlitsch

    Tom Sweterlitsch is the author of The Gone World and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. He has a Master’s Degree in Literary and Cultural Theory from Carnegie Mellon and worked for twelve years at the Carnegie Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. He lives in… More about Tom Sweterlitsch

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    Product Details

    Category: Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
    May 05, 2015 | 384 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780425275412

    Category: Literary Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
    Jul 10, 2014 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9780698142701

    Category: Literary Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Suspense & Thriller | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Jul 10, 2014 | 629 Minutes | ISBN 9780698163898
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    Praise for Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    “A disquieting vision…Tomorrow and Tomorrow is literary sci-fi, focusing on the picture, like Henry James, not the frame that defines it, like H.G. Wells.”—The Wall Street Journal

    “Tomorrow and Tomorrow crosses the streams between dystopian nightmares—enveloping both the invasive total-surveillance state of Minority Report and the post-nuclear apocalypse of The Road. It’s quite unusual for a first-time writer to have such a command of so many literary styles. Inherently cinematic…It’s fiction, of course, but just close enough to our reality to be disturbing.”—Pittsburgh Tribune

    “Simultaneously trippy and hardboiled, Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a rich, absorbing, relentlessly inventive mindfuck, a smart, dark noir….utterly visionary.”—Stewart O’Nan

    “Tomorrow & Tomorrow is weird, hypnotic, and lovely.  Sweterlitsch’s future is close enough to be plausible, and strange enough to be fascinating.”—Django Wexler, author of The Thousand Names
     
    “Vividly and beautifully written.”—Kirkus Reviews

    “The premise of this debut novel is fascinating in its possibilities…Fans of William Gibson and classic noir will love how the styles intersect here.”—Library Journal

    “[A] fascinating work of dystopian fiction, stuffed to the seams with ideas, striking visuals, and raw emotion.”—Tor.com
     
    “Vivid and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly

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