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When Julia Hernandez leaves her husband, shoots a real estate developer, and then vanishes without a trace, she slips out of the world she knew and into the Simulacrum—a place where human history is both guided and thwarted by the conflict between a species of anarchist wasps and a collective... read more
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“War is hell, but only if hell is other people and other people are generally speaking both quite boring and extremely--if not necessarily rationally--self-interested.”
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“And so too, the movement that followed in the wake of Julia's graffiti emerged from many precincts and quarters cutting across land and time zone, but oriented toward that peculiar intersection of Generations X, Y, and Z. Largely white, surprisingly impoverished in their own eyes, people from whom the irony has never escaped, but who themselves cannot escape irony.”
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“I JUST WANT YOUR HALF”
Setting & Locations edit
- Manhattan
- Brooklyn
- Jersey City
- Long Island
- India
- Iraq
- New Jersey
- New York
- San Francisco
- Plesiometa
- Alcatraz
- America
First Sentence edit
Raymond saw his ex-wife twice--both times by accident--in the first few months after she went into hiding.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Nick Mamatas (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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