Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Tom Sweterlitsch
Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Tom Sweterlitsch
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Author: Tom Sweterlitsch

Narrator: Adam Paul

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/10/2014


Synopsis

“Strong debut…vivid and compelling.” —Publishers Weekly

Yesterday cannot last forever...

A decade has passed since the city of Pittsburgh was reduced to ash.
           
While the rest of the world has moved on, losing itself in the noise of a media-glutted future, survivor John Dominic Blaxton remains obsessed with the past. Grieving for his wife and unborn child who perished in the blast, Dominic relives his lost life by immersing in the Archive—a fully interactive digital reconstruction of Pittsburgh, accessible to anyone who wants to visit the places they remember and the people they loved.
           
Dominic investigates deaths recorded in the Archive to help close cases long since grown cold, but when he discovers glitches in the code surrounding a crime scene—the body of a beautiful woman abandoned in a muddy park that he’s convinced someone tried to delete from the Archive—his cycle of grief is shattered.
           
With nothing left to lose, Dominic tracks the murder through a web of deceit that takes him from the darkest corners of the Archive to the ruins of the city itself, leading him into the heart of a nightmare more horrific than anything he could have imagined.

About The Author

Thomas Sweterlitsch is the author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow, which has been sold in four countries and optioned for film by Sony. He has a master’s degree in literary and cultural theory from Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and daughter.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Therin on February 03, 2015

I rarely DNF books, especially at the beginning, but I just could not get through this one. And it's sad, because I do believe the author is talented and has some really great things going on this book... ...it just wasn't for me. First off, the positives. The world-building in this novel was excellent......more

Goodreads review by Brooke on January 11, 2019

I love mysteries in a science fiction setting (Lock In, Six Wakes, The City & the City, etc), and I really dig near future sci-fi, so I was really looking forward to this one. Unfortunately, it just did not work. I see a lot of reviews raving about the world-building, but I honestly think that the bo......more


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Praise for Tomorrow and Tomorrow

“A disquieting vision...Tomorrow and Tomorrow is literary sci-fi, focusing on the picture, like Henry James, not the frame that defines it, like H.G. Wells.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Tomorrow and Tomorrow crosses the streams between dystopian nightmares—enveloping both the invasive total-surveillance state of Minority Report and the post-nuclear apocalypse of The Road. It's quite unusual for a first-time writer to have such a command of so many literary styles. Inherently cinematic...It's fiction, of course, but just close enough to our reality to be disturbing.”—Pittsburgh Tribune

“Simultaneously trippy and hardboiled, Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a rich, absorbing, relentlessly inventive mindfuck, a smart, dark noir....utterly visionary.”—Stewart O'Nan

Tomorrow & Tomorrow is weird, hypnotic, and lovely.  Sweterlitsch’s future is close enough to be plausible, and strange enough to be fascinating.”—Django Wexler, author of The Thousand Names
 
“Vividly and beautifully written.”—Kirkus Reviews

“The premise of this debut novel is fascinating in its possibilities…Fans of William Gibson and classic noir will love how the styles intersect here.”—Library Journal

“[A] fascinating work of dystopian fiction, stuffed to the seams with ideas, striking visuals, and raw emotion.”—Tor.com
 
“Vivid and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly