Public Access Afterworld

Jane Schoenbrun

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On 12th June 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two TV-obsessed suburban teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin's basement to watch TV's analogue-to-digital transition. Beneath the static that follows, Erin catches a glimpse of a mysterious broadcast from a TV network called 'Public Access Afterworld'. Soon after that, she vanishes - changing the trajectory of David's life forever. 14 years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill's bleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing horrific videos. But gradually a pattern emerges from the ocean of digital violence in the form of a young streamer, Jules, calling out the same words: Public Access Afterworld. She sets out to rescue Jules, and begins a journey that sweeps from rural Texas to 1940s Los Alamos - ending at the basement where David and Erin first encountered a world at the edges of reality itself.


Author(s): Schoenbrun, Jane
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 27/10/2026
Pagination: 608 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Sceptre
Published By: Hodder & Stoughton
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction|Modern & contemporary fiction|Modern & contemporary fiction|Modern & contemporary fiction|Narrative theme: Social issues
Dimensions: 326 x 242 x 192
Weight: 855
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781399747356

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