Public Access Afterworld: "I stayed up all night binge-reading" SenLinYu, author of ALCHEMISED
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How far would you go to bring back the only person who ever felt like home?
'A riot in novel form by an author with an utterly singular, original vision. Public Access Afterworld will leave you breathless and desperate for a sequel'
KALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of Time
'Jane Schoenbrun has the literary voice I've been famished for. Public Access Afterworld gave me a vertiginous thrill I haven't encountered since David Mitchell'
TORREY PETERS, author of Stag Dance and Detransition, Baby
'I stayed up all night binge-reading . . . Adroitly beautiful, funny, and scathing'
SENLINYU, author of AlchemisedOn 12th June 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin's basement to watch TV's analogue-to-digital transition. Beneath the static that follows, Erin catches a glimpse of a mysterious broadcast from a TV network called 'Public Access Afterworld'. Soon after that, she vanishes - changing the trajectory of David's life forever.
Fourteen years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill's bleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing an endless stream of horrific videos. But gradually a pattern emerges in the form of a young streamer, Jules, calling out the same words: Public Access Afterworld.
When Bethany sets out to rescue Jules, she begins an epic journey that sweeps from rural Texas to 1940s Los Alamos - and all the way back to that basement where David and Erin first encountered a world at the edges of reality itself.
Praise for Public Access Afterworld
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Psychedelic horror of the first order
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A 600 page shot of sheer adrenaline, as exhilarating as it is addictive
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Dazzling . . . a great American novel of the 20th century's digital echoes - Publishers Weekly
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Praise for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun
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- 'This is Jane Schoenbrun's world . . . the rest of us just live and, yes, die in it' - Financial Times
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- 'An outpouring of imagination and invention . . . comparable to that of Wes Anderson's "Asteroid City" and Greta Gerwig's "Barbie." - New Yorker
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