they will probably do better jobs reviewing here than i will. i am going to try to do this tantalizingly, so you guys actually want to go out and read it, instead of reading whatever watered-down summary i could come up with. 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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