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A novel about fear of the future?and the future of fear
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2013
On Sale: April 2, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 0374224242
EAN: 9780374224240
Kindle: B00ANI9EMO
Hardcover / e-Book
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New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted
young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial
consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of
an empty office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is
employee number two. He is asked to calculate worst-case
scenarios in the most intricate detail, and his schemes are
sold to corporations to indemnify them against any future
disasters. This is the cutting edge of corporate
irresponsibility, and business is booming. As Mitchell immerses himself in the mathematics of
catastrophe—ecological collapse, war games, natural
disasters—he becomes obsessed by a culture’s fears. Yet he
also loses touch with his last connection to reality: Elsa
Bruner, a friend with her own apocalyptic secret, who has
started a commune in Maine. Then, just as Mitchell’s
predictions reach a nightmarish crescendo, an actual
worst-case scenario overtakes Manhattan. Mitchell realizes
he is uniquely prepared to profit. But at what cost? At once an all-too-plausible literary thriller, an
unexpected love story, and a philosophically searching
inquiry into the nature of fear, Nathaniel Rich’s Odds
Against Tomorrow poses the ultimate questions of imagination
and civilization. The future is not quite what it used to be.
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