Том Светерлич - Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Thank you to Matt McHenry and Guy Bialostocki, whose computer expertise helped bring a sense of realism to the Archive.

Thank you to Pittsburgh artist Seth Clark, whose finely constructed architectural collages served as an inspiration when I imagined the type of artwork Albion might create.

Thank you to David Gernert, Andy Kifer, Rebecca Gardner and everyone at the Gernert Company. Thank you to Sylvie Rabineau at RWSG Literary Agency.

Thank you to Meaghan Wagner, my editor. Thank you to Ivan Held and Susan Allison at Putnam. Thank you to John Wordsworth at Headline books. Thank you to the hardworking copyeditors and designers at Putnam who helped bring this book to life.

Thank you to everyone at the Carnegie Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, true friends and a second family, who I’ve shared my life with for twelve years.

Thank you to my mom and dad for everything, and to Howard and Marilyn, to Jenna and James and Karen, to Tal and Jenn and Pete, and to Eloise, Amelia and Pen.

And thank you to my wife, Sonja, and my daughter, Genevieve, whose love is everything to me.

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“ Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a delicious dystopian mystery being described as Blade Runner meets Minority Report .”

“The premise of this debut novel is fascinating in its possibilities… John’s grief is a palpable, living thing, preventing him from participating in his own life. Fans of William Gibson and classic noir will love how the styles intersect here.”

“It’s quite unusual for a first-time writer to have such a command of so many literary styles… It’s fiction, of course, but just close enough to our reality to be disturbing.”

“If good science fiction is true to the dictum that the future is just like now only more so, then Tomorrow and Tomorrow is great science fiction.”

“Vivid and compelling.”

“It’s a testament to Sweterlitsch’s skill that he makes the reader feel Dominic’s grief for his wife and unborn daughter so powerfully… Vividly and beautifully written.”

“Simultaneously trippy and hard-boiled, Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a rich, absorbing, relentlessly inventive mindfuck, a smart, dark noir… Sweterlitsch’s debut is a wild mash-up of Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, and William S. Burroughs and, like their work, utterly visionary.”

“Thomas Sweterlitsch is a superstar. Right out of the blocks, he’s managed to achieve what most authors never do: the creation of a world so complete–so sensually rich and emotionally authentic–that it reduces the real world to a pale impression. Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a brutal, beautiful book. Read it.”

“A brilliantly disturbing tale of deceit, and the tangled griefs of murder and conspiracy that haunt a virtual world. Thomas Sweterlitsch writes with deft and uncanny prescience about a future that seems all-too-likely. A must-read for lovers of tech noir.”

“ Tomorrow & Tomorrow is weird, hypnotic, and lovely. Sweterlitsch’s future is close enough to be plausible, and strange enough to be fascinating.”

“A mesmerizing, genre-mixing sci-fi, noir mystery that inhabits its influences rather than merely wearing them knowingly on its sleeve. I could not put it down.”

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sweterlitsch, Thomas.

Tomorrow and tomorrow / Thomas Sweterlitsch.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-698-14270-1

1. Archivists—Pittsburgh (Pa.)—Fiction. 2. Survival—Pittsburgh (Pa.)—Fiction. 3. Terrorism—Pittsburgh (Pa.)—Fiction. 4. Dystopias—Fiction. I. Title.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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