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March 2019
On Sale: March 5, 2019
384 pages
ISBN: 0374175411
EAN: 9780374175412
Kindle: B07GD9WB59
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Science Fiction
A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of
fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the
Internet BEFORE: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital
no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data
dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic
aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten
years in, it’s become a center of creative counterculture.
But it’s fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside. How
will it fare when its chief architect, Rushdi Mannan, takes
off to meet his boyfriend in New York City—now the
apotheosis of the new techno-utopian global metropolis? AFTER: An act of anonymous cyberterrorism has permanently
switched off the Internet. Global trade, travel, and
communication have collapsed. The luxuries that
characterized modern life are scarce. In the Croft, Mary—who
has visions of people presumed dead—is sought out by
grieving families seeking connections to lost ones. But does
Mary have a gift or is she just hustling to stay alive? Like
Grids, who runs the Croft’s black market like personal turf.
Or like Tyrone, who hoards music (culled from cassettes, the
only medium to survive the crash) and tattered sneakers like
treasure. The world of Infinite Detail is a small step shy of
our own: utterly dependent on technology, constantly
brokering autonomy and privacy for comfort and convenience.
With Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan makes the
hitherto-unimaginable come true: the End of the Internet,
the End of the World as We Know It.
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