The amateurs.
The amateurs.
By
:
Harmer, Elizabeth.
Publication Date
:
2018
Subject Term
:
Time travel -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Science fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Summary
:
Allow us to introduce you to the newest product from PINA, the world's largest tech company. "Port" is a curiously irresistible device that offers the impossible: space-time travel mysteriously powered by nostalgia and longing. Step inside a Port and find yourself transported to wherever and whenever your heart desires: a bygone youth, a dreamed-of future, the fabled past. In the near-future world of Liz Harmer's extraordinary novel, Port becomes a phenomenon, but soon it is clear that many who pass through its portal won't be coming back--either unwilling to return or, more ominously, unable to do so. After a few short years, the population plummets. The grid goes down. Among those who remain is Marie, a thirty-something artist living in a small community of Port-resistors camping out in the abandoned mansions of a former steel town. As winter approaches the group considers heading south, but Marie clings to the hope that her long-lost lover will one day return to the spot where he disappeared. Meanwhile, PINA's corporate campus in California has become a cultish enclave of survivors. Brandon, the right-hand man to the mad genius who invented Port, decides to get out. He steals a car and drives north-east, where he hopes to find his missing mother. And there he meets Marie. The Amateurs is a story of rapture and romance, and a powerful debut novel about what happens when technology meets desire.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780345811240
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number |
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Pasadena | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC HAR |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | ADULT FIC - BASEMENT | Adult Fiction - Basement | FIC HAR |