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The Infinite Future
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Michael Crouch, Jonathan Davis, Hillary Huber, full cast
- Durée: 13 h et 15 min
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Description
An exhilarating, original novel, set in Brazil, Idaho, and outer space, about an obsessive librarian, a down-at-heel author, and a disgraced historian who go on the hunt for a mystical, life-changing book - and find it.
The Infinite Future is a mind-bending novel that melds two addictive tales in one. In the first, we meet three broken people, joined by an obsession with a forgotten Brazilian science-fiction author named Salgado-MacKenzie. There's Danny, a writer who's been scammed by a shady literary award committee; Sergio, journalist turned sub-librarian in São Paulo; and Harriet, an excommunicated Mormon historian in Salt Lake City, who years ago corresponded with the reclusive Brazilian writer. The motley trio sets off to discover his identity, and whether his fabled masterpiece - never published - actually exists. Did his inquiries into the true nature of the universe yield something so enormous that his mind was blown for good?
In the second half, Wirkus gives us the lost masterpiece itself - the actual text of The Infinite Future, Salgado-MacKenzie's wonderfully weird magnum opus. The two stories merge in surprising and profound ways. Part science fiction, part academic satire, and part book-lover's quest, this wholly original novel captures the heady way that stories inform and mirror our lives.
Audiobook Cast of Narrators:
- Michael Crouch, as Danny
- Jonathan Davis, as Sergio
- Hillary Huber, as Harriet
- Phoebe Strole, as Sister Ursula
- Kristen Sieh, as Irena
- Sean Patrick Hopkins, as Tim
- Oliver Wyman, as Craig
- Carol Monda, as Madge
Ce que les critiques en disent
“Stupendously inventive and rewarding…The second half of Wirkus’ tale is…a sci-fi epic which echoes Battlestar Galactica and the fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin in equal measure…Especially well suited for fans of Jonathan Lethem and Ron Currie, this work announces Wirkus as one of the most exciting novelists of his generation.” (Booklist, starred review)
“Wirkus crafts two gripping sagas into one gloriously captivating tome.” (Paste)
"Roberto Bolaño meets Ursula K. Le Guin meets James Hynes meets, um, Kilgore Trout? I'm having a difficult time being clever in the shadow of having read Tim Wirkus's magnificently audacious The Infinite Future. How about this: it's a book about the power and melancholy magic of the stories we tell and of the stories we live." (Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock)