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“Unnerving. . . . An absorbing picture of dawning apocalypse. . . . A disturbing portrait of a society convinced it’s close to utopia when a cure for aging is invented. Unsurprisingly, it doesn’t take long for that seeming utopia to dissolve into a planet-overstressed from overpopulation, food and fuel shortages, and general lawlessness-going into systemic failure. . . . The Postmortal is a suitably chilling entry into the ‘it's-the-end-of-the-world’ canon.”—The Austin Chronicle“Magary’s vision of future technology and science is eerily realistic. . . . By the time you finish, you’ll want to hold your loved ones close and stockpile bottles of water. If all else fails, you could potentially make a living selling them a few decades from now.”—The New York Press“An exciting page turner. . . . Drew Magary is an excellent writer. This is his first novel but he tells the story masterfully. . . . The most frightening thing about The Postmortal is that this could really happen-it’s not a supernatural story, but it’s even more terrifying than zombie apocalypse.” —Mark Frauenfelder, BoingBoing“The first novel from a popular sports blogger and humorist puts a darkly comic spin on a science fiction premise and hits the sweet spot between Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut. . . . [Magary] understands that satire is most effective when it gives the real world a gently absurd nudge, then lets its characters react much as we ourselves might under the same circumstances.” —Ron Hogan, Shelf Awareness“Immortality has figured in a number of sf novels prior to this one, but never, to my experience, in this way. . . . A very clear-eyed picture, one I don’t think has been drawn before. . . . The Postmortal surprised me in a good way.” —Michelle West, Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine“The Postmortal is a punchy, fast-paced and endearing story. . . . As the novel progresses, it turns from a snappy morality tale, to a noir-ish revenge fable, to an action movie; complete with guns, rogue religious cults and government-sanctioned hit men. The narrative comes to us through John’s blog entries and collections of news bytes and pundit commentary. Through his sixty years as a 29-year-old, he experiences all the love, pain, grief, and terror of a standard lifetime and is still in good enough shape to kick some ass at the end. Like much good dystopian fiction, The Postmortal is an at-times unflattering commentary on human beings, present, past and future, that hits the mark in many ways. . . . For anyone intrigued with Life Extension science, it's a fun examination of our fears and expectations.” —The Nervous Breakdown“A darkly comic, totally gonzo, and effectively frightening population-bomb dystopia in the spirit of Logan’s Run, Soylent Green, and the best episodes of The Twilight Zone.” —Neal Pollack, author of Alternadad and Stretch“As insanely entertaining as it is ambitious, The Postmortal takes us into an America set in the next few years and coming apart under the onslaught of a dreadful new plague--that of human immortality. Magary possesses an explosive imagination and let loose in The Postmortal, he creates an alternate history of the near future that feels real and is probably inevitable. Read The Postmortal if you want to find out what happened to the human race in our last violent and absurd few years in New York.” —Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill“I suppose you could wait for the inevitable Postmortal movie. But then you might miss Magary’s rendering, his word play, his singular sense of humor. A book that is, at once bracingly funny and—get this, Deadspin Nation—unmistakably poignant.”—L. Jon Wertheim, coauthor of Scorecasting“As someone who is totally freaked out by the thought of dying, The Postmortal really stood on top of me and peed on my face. It’s depiction of the future isn’t filled with crappy robots fighting Will Smith. It’s filled with eerily realistic portrayals of what the future could look like and does it all in an incredibly entertaining story.” —Justin Halpern, author of Sh*t My Dad Says
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About the Author
Drew Magary is a correspondent for GQ and a columnist for Deadspin. He is the author of two novels, The Hike and The Postmortal, and the memoir Someone Could Get Hurt. His writing has appeared in Maxim, New York, The Atlantic, Bon Appétit, The Huffington Post, the Awl, Gawker, Penthouse, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and on Comedy Central, NPR, NBC, Yahoo!, ESPN, and more. He’s been featured on Good Morning America and has been interviewed by the AV Club, the New York Observer, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and many others. He lives in Maryland with his wife and three kids, and is a Chopped champion.
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Product details
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; 1 edition (August 30, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143119826
ISBN-13: 978-0143119821
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 0.7 x 7.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
252 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#54,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
The Postmortal is easily one of the most thought-provoking and well-constructed novels I've read in years. What would you do if scientists discovered the cure for aging? How would the world react? Is immortality something to be celebrated, or feared?These are the questions at the heart of The Postmortal. In 2019, a genetic experiment inadvertently leads to a cure for aging. While those who take "The Cure" can still be killed (via accident, murder, disease, cancer, etc), they will never age - meaning you could theoretically live forever as long as you take of yourself. After a protracted legal and ethical debate, The Cure is legalized. And then all hell breaks loose.The Postmortal is told through the eyes of John Farrell, who gets The Cure at age 29. Told in short, journal-like chapters, newspaper articles, interviews, and social media feeds, the narrative stretches more than 70 years - at which Farrell remains 29.This is one of the most engaging books I've ever read. At nearly every single chapter, author Drew Magary brings up a new wrinkle or subversive idea about what it would mean if people simply stopped aging. What would happen to marriages? The environment? Religion? The prison population? Military service? International politics? Terrorism? Healthcare? Retirement?While The Postmortal covers some bleak territory, Magary maintains a somewhat light touch, ensuring the book never becomes a nihilistic slog. And with his feet planted firmly in reality, Margary never lets the narrative slide into the fanciful or far-fetched.A feature-length thought experiment, it's surprisingly philosophical and poignant, even amidst the mayhem and carnage. If you fear death, this book will make you terrified of the alternative.Ultimately, the arc of The Postmortal hinges on one crucial question: How much heartbreak, grief, joy, experience, and love can the human heart really take before it all becomes meaningless?
I enjoyed reading this book. Lots of ways of looking at problems that would arise if people were immortal. Actually, they only stopped aging, there are lots of other ways to die and the novel explores many of those. But what would be the social, environmental, and political repercussions of a cure for aging?One problem is that the book's premise for the cure is very, very weak. Also, the explanation for how and why the cure was dispensed was not really explored and that would have been an interesting topic. What happened in the third world countries? Why is there an infinite supply of this stuff?The book gets weaker and weaker as you progress through it. By the time you get to the end, there is no justification for anything. Major developments simply have no explanation.I debated between giving this three or four stars.
The first half of the book made you think about how society would respond if there was no more aging. The second half? It was like reading an unfinished, very long and drawn out description of Suicide Bunnies. Well no, at least Suicide Bunnies has some (morbid) humor to it.On top of that, the book could be 100 pages LESS, and still get a solid point across. About 152 pages into the book I kept wondering where the story was going. Apparently the author didn't have a clue either, since the book ends without any clear ending whatsoever-be prepared to sigh in disgust at the last ten pages, to put the book down with a look of disgust, and be happy you are done reading it.So, I give the book three stars for making me think in the first half, but I could just as easily give it two stars for being scattered, and not able to pull itself together in the middle and end.
i loved "the hike" and liked a lot of this book, but third act was a little forced and kind of went away from what made the book interesting. the author actually writes about how he needed the structure and story or else it was just rambling deep thought, but i thought that was the strongest point of the book.good premise, interesting thinking and presentation, but kind of falls off when it turns into a by the numbers story that forces the ends to be tied up in an unsatisfying and out of character way.
3.5*This book nearly lost me in the first quarter. And frankly, it's not entirely the book's or author's fault. When writing for a general audience, you have to take the time to explain how everything works, which takes time. You're trying to make the world and characters matter just enough that the reader sticks through the rest of the story.This is fine, but when a book about immortality trips on a science fiction / fantasy / comic reader, or a reader who can otherwise follow the leap the main characters are going on without much convincing, that early part can be a real drag. In part because things seem obvious. In part because you have made the leap and are waiting for the part of the story of consequence to start.But I am happy to report that this book was able to shake all of that off once it set everything up and punished the protagonist enough. That's not to say the punishment ended halfway through - it didn't. But a lot of the early grind does get paid off near the end, even if it's a bit of a stretch to go that circular.
This is one of favorite reads of the last few years. Without giving too much away, the "cure" for aging is found. What problems will this create in the long run when people don't die of old age? What if you change your mind? Will "til death do us part" be a bit much to commit to in marriages now? What about the people that opposed it to begin with? Lots of interesting questions and interesting scenarios. It is a great read. It was the kind of book I would stay up way too late reading because I would read "just one more chapter" a few too many times.
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