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Eleven years after a world war destroyed the consumer-driven, plastic-based existence of 2055, a new order of players jostles for power. Streaky electricity, ravaging drought, a scarcity of food and deadly Monarch butterflies makes for an increasingly desperate situation. In this imaginative sequel to The Rage Room (2020), Sharps Barkley returns after a bizarre series of encounters inside the Mainframe and is reunited with his former cohorts. At the same time, his mother reinvents herself and eventually emerges as the new leader of a dreamy nightmarish world. The genetically engineered OctoOne and her army face off against The Fountain of Youth compound ruled by an unstable plastic surgeon known as Alpha Plus and his deadly squad of mechanical cutting machines. Will world order ever be restored? A hilarious and likewise poignant novel, Everything You Dream is Real is filled with dark and delightful ironies, and the sobering realization that obsession with appearances, the soul-draining sex-trade, and the thirst for power hold sway in our own world every bit as much as in an imagined apocalyptic future.
“Witty and elegant, dorky and weird: Everything You Dream Is Real is a fantastically riveting book, loaded with strange delights, scary caprices and an infinity of comic turns and twists.”
Lynn Crosbie, author of Chicken and where did you sleep last night?
“Lisa de Nikolits’s Everything You Dream Is Real is aptly named: this novel reads like a delirious hallucination, but one with unmistakable immediacy. Come for the sci-fi and action-adventure; stay for the love story that lurks just below the surface.”
Mark Sampson, author of All the Animals on Earth, The Slip, and Sad Peninsula
300 Pages
8.25in * 5.5in * 1in
1.1lb
October 18, 2022
CA
9781771339308
eng
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