Anthropocene Rag

Irvine, Alex

ISBN 10: 125026927X / ISBN 13: 9781250269270

Published by Tordotcom (edition ), 2020

About this Item

It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 125026927X-11-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Anthropocene Rag
• Publisher: Tordotcom (edition )
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 125026927X
• ISBN 13: 9781250269270
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Anthropocene Rag is "a rare distillation of nanotech, apocalypse, and mythic Americana into a heady psychedelic brew."―Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning author Jeffrey Ford

In the future United States, our own history has faded into myth and traveling across the country means navigating wastelands and ever-changing landscapes.

The country teems with monsters and artificial intelligences try to unpack their own becoming by recreating myths and legends of their human creators. Prospector Ed, an emergent AI who wants to understand the people who made him, assembles a ragtag team to reach the mythical Monument City.

In this nanotech Western, Alex Irvine infuses American mythmaking with terrifying questions about the future and who we will become.

About the Author

Alex Irvine is the author of A Scattering of Jades, One King, One Soldier, The Narrows, Buyout, and Anthropocene Rag, as well as The Comic Book Story of Baseball and numerous licensed comics and novels in the universes of (among others) Marvel, DC, Dungeons & Dragons, Halo, Transformers, and Supernatural. His short fiction has been collected in Rossetti Song, Unintended Consequences, and Pictures from an Expedition. He has written or worked on about twenty games for Blizzard, Amazon, Marvel, and other studios, including the Peabody Award-winning Alternate Reality Game known as The Beast. All the work for Marvel got him thinking about “Form 8774-D” one day, and here we are. Learn more at alex-irvine.com.