Afterparty - Couverture rigide

Gregory, Daryl

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0765336928 ISBN 13 : 9780765336927

Editeur : Tor Books, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'This is a road trip revelation for a new generation.' --Sci Fi Now

'Energetic, violent and darkly funny, and touches on serious questions about faith and belief.' --Financial Times

'Clever, philosophical sci-fi thriller.' --The Sun < br/>
An Amazon.com Best Book of the Month, April 2014: Lyda Rose and her colleagues had the best intentions: to create a drug that would cure schizophrenia. Instead, she's in a mental hospital, saddled with a permanent hallucination of a doctor with angel's wings. When a newly admitted teenaged girl commits suicide rather than deal with withdrawal, Lyda recognizes the symptoms and realizes that her drug has hit the streets. She arranges her own release, helps her lover (a paranoid ex-government agent) break out of the hospital, and tries to find out where the drug is coming from. Combining elements of near-future science fiction, cyber-thriller, and whodunit mystery, Daryl Gregory takes us on a pulse-racing, brain-bending adventure that reads like the enthusiastic retelling of a crazy acid trip--twisted and imaginative and frightening and funny and intense. Along the way we investigate drug-pushing churches, we double-cross a gang run by ruthless old ladies, we team up with Native American smugglers, we dodge a split-personality urban rancher, and perhaps most dangerous of all, we try to track down Lyda's old scientific team in search of answers. --Robin A. Rothman

Both irreverent and sympathetic to the sincere Numinous-addicted believers, the tragi-comical satire dispenses with sermons and easy morals, preferring to be entertaining and thought-provoking instead. Publishers Weekly

International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) William L. Crawford Fantasy Award winner Gregory (Pandemonium; Raising Stony Mayhall) takes on the pharmaceutical industry, drug dealers, religion, and the intricacies of how our brains work. The way the author combines the energy of a thriller with the ideas of sf is reminiscent of William Gibson's best one-step-into-the-future novels like Pattern Recognition. --Library Journal (starred review)
br > "The writing is gripping, exciting and flows at a pace both adrenaline inducing and calming at the same time." -- --The Cult Den

Présentation de l'éditeur

In a world where God is a drug, one woman has to get sober. Lyda Rose was one of the neuroscientists who helped create Numinous, which produces the illusion of a personal deity, but since unwittingly overdosing, she has been haunted by her own visions of an angel she calls Dr. Gloria. After a stay in an asylum, she thinks shes put it behind her. Then others start overdosing. Who is stlll producing the drug, and why?

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Tor Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0765336928
• ISBN 13: 9780765336927
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 302