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; the kind of epic book that doesn't just warp reality on the page but goes on warping when you look up - you read it and the world glints with secrets anew. -- Torrey Peters, author of STAG DANCE and DETRANSITION, BABY
Public Access Afterworld is an immersive and chilling journey that I stayed up all night binge-reading. Schoenbrun's skill and confidence as a storyteller are made clear by the deft way they play with both genre and form as the book bends and warps across time and mediums. Adroitly beautiful, funny, and scathing, Public Access Afterworld is a book from a talented storyteller with much to say, who's not afraid to say it -- SenLinYu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of ALCHEMISED
In Jane Schoenbrun's electric Public Access Afterworld the American dream is refracted through the lens of the history of television to show its true nightmare self. Thrilling, heart-wrenching, hilarious, visionary, and so damned smart, this novel is a major work from a major talent -- Paul Tremblay, author of A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS and DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP
Constantly yanking the magical carpet out from under the reader's feet, this epic quest for the source of all television is psychedelic horror of the first order -- Grady Hendrix, author of WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS
An epic TV show wrapped inside a novel wrapped inside our reality and maybe every other reality there ever was, Public Access Afterworld is a 600 page shot of sheer adrenaline, as exhilarating as it is addictive... Jane Schoenbrun is one of modern horror's most distinctive, confident voices and the fact that they're as adept at bringing their vision to the page as they are to the screen is both dazzling and infuriating -- Will Maclean, author of SOLACE HOUSE
A thriller unlike any other. Strange, urgent, utterly hypnotic - once you start reading Public Access Afterworld, you won't stop -- Lev Grossman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE MAGICIANS
Such a compulsive read. Dark and glittering and full of static. Huzzah. Neon sign: So, so much fun -- Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK
David Lynch-y . . . [Public Access Afterworld] is weird and creepy and unsettling . . . Rife with questions about trans identity and how pop culture plays into how you think about yourself and see yourself in the world -- Fall Book Preview * New York Times Book Review podcast *
This genre-bending epic about transition and connection has a cultish appeal sure to garner devoted fans. Think Stranger Things, Cloud Atlas or A Visit to the Good Squad . . . [a] startlingly inventive fiction debut * The Bookseller *
Dazzling and politically acute, Schoenbrun's debut announces a major literary voice -- starred review * Kirkus *
Of all their work to this point, Public Access Afterworld feels like the most unfettered, freed up to be as far-reaching as they'd like without any thought to what it would cost to stage everything for the camera (though they'd still like to make a screen version someday). The novel is Schoenbrun turned loose to remix and run wild . . . there's a character named Bethany who is both the book's answer to Buffy and also just a wonderfully specific trans girl going through, in Schoenbrun's words, a manic hero bender. Bethany might just bring about the end of the world, though Public Access Afterworld asks whether the systems we're so resigned t