Afterparty by Daryl Gregory
It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide.
Lyda Rose, another patient in that detention facility, has a dark secret: she was one of the original scientists who developed the drug. With the help of an ex-government agent and an imaginary, drug-induced doctor, Lyda sets out to find the other three survivors of the five who made the Numinous in a quest to set things right.
A mind-bending and violent chase across Canada and the US, Daryl Gregory’s Afterparty is a marvelous mix of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, Philip K. Dick’s Ubik, and perhaps a bit of Peter Watts’s Starfish: a last chance to save civilization, or die trying.
Representation Includes
- Lesbian protagonist
Content Warning
Drug use, death/murder, More information on content warnings needed — please comment if you know of any.Awards
- Nominated for the Lambda Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award
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Details
- Published April 22nd 2014 by Tor Books
- Hardcover (ISBN13: 9780765336927)
- Paperback isbn13: 9780765336934