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A dark force that draws victims into its static. The unlikely hero called to save them and herself from this electric hell. \u003ci\u003ePublic Access Afterworld\u003c\/i\u003e is the profound, binge-all-night, headrush of a novel by the celebrated filmmaker of \u003ci\u003eI Saw the TV Glow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One of \u003ci\u003ePublisher Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e’s Ten Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautiful, funny, and scathing . . . I stayed up all night binge-reading.”—SenLinYu\u003cbr\u003e“Gave me a vertiginous thrill I haven’t encountered since David Mitchell.”—Torrey Peters\u003cbr\u003e“Psychedelic horror of the first order.”—Grady Hendrix\u003cbr\u003e“Heart-wrenching, hilarious, visionary, and so damned smart, this novel is a major work by a major writer.”—Paul Tremblay\u003cbr\u003e“Utterly hypnotic.”—Lev Grossman\u003cbr\u003e“Dazzling and politically acute, Schoenbrun’s debut announces a major literary voice.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e“A dazzling story . . . a great American novel.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e“One of the best novels of the year.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The New York Times Book Review Podcast, The Boston Globe, Time, The Millions, Autostraddle, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Lit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVulture, AV Club, The Chicago Review of Books, The Bookseller\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReactor, Electric Lit, Book Riot, Crime Reads, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGizmodo, Debutiful, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWrite Through the Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFind the receiver. Make it real.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 5:35 p.m. on September 3, 1988, Dallas weatherman Ray “Can You Say Sunshine” Davino makes passing reference to Public Access Afterworld during a rambling monologue, right before he puts a gun to his head on live television and pulls the trigger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn June 12, 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 analog-to-digital transition. But in the static that follows, Erin witnesses surreal broadcasts from a pirate TV network called Public Access Afterworld, and their lives are changed forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventeen 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 then a young streamer begins to crop up in her feed calling out to Public Access Afterworld.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what \u003ci\u003eis \u003c\/i\u003ePublic Access Afterworld?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning decades and realities, with an unforgettable ensemble of outcasts and nerds—especially the messy but wholly relatable Bethany, who must overcome paranoia and self-doubt to transform into a hero of our times—\u003ci\u003ePublic Access Afterworld \u003c\/i\u003ewill have you reading through the night and rooting for its characters to survive. A mesmerizing mash-up of speculative fiction, horror, and conspiracy, it marks the arrival of a major new force in contemporary fiction by a groundbreaking filmmaker who’s been compared to David Lynch and Paul Thomas Anderson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Schoenbrun\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. 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