Agents of the Internet Apocalypse: A Novel (The Internet Apocalypse Trilogy), by Wayne Gladstone
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Gladstone, the so-called Internet Messiah, has not only failed to bring back the World Wide Web, which disappeared mysteriously several months earlier, but his search has also landed him in a New York City psychiatric ward. The rest of the world isn't doing so well either, filled with disconnected Internet users still jonesing for a fix, and an increasingly draconian government, interrogating and detaining anyone deemed a "person of interest" under the NET Recovery Act.
For Gladstone, however, finding the Net is less important than heading to Los Angeles to win back his ex-wife. He takes up residence on the couch of his old friend, gossip-blogger Tobey, while trying to rebuild his lost romance. But when Gladstone's old journal account of the Internet Apocalypse goes "paper viral," his newfound celebrity puts him at the forefront of the Internet Reclamation Movement. Soon he is the target of shadowy government agents and a reluctant collaborator with Anonymous, who provides a clue that promises to explain the Internet's disappearance.
Full of funny, yet cutting social commentary, Wayne Gladstone's Agents of the Internet Apocalypse continues the series that imagines a dystopian world without the Web.
Agents of the Internet Apocalypse: A Novel (The Internet Apocalypse Trilogy), by Wayne Gladstone - Amazon Sales Rank: #177602 in Books
- Published on: 2015-07-21
- Released on: 2015-07-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.45" h x 1.05" w x 5.68" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
Agents of the Internet Apocalypse: A Novel (The Internet Apocalypse Trilogy), by Wayne Gladstone Review
“With his sharp wit and Googlesque knowledge of the Web, Gladstone lays bare the ways viral communication has become the infrastructure of our economic and cultural identity....At its core, Notes from the Internet Apocalypse is a love story...it will break your heart.” ―The Washington Post on Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
“The punchlines are pitch-perfect. Anyone who spends time sharing jokes in web communities will find this satire irresistible. ” ―Booklist on Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
“A belly-laugh account.” ―Toronto Star on Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
“An acid cultural satire that skewers what we would miss most about the online world.” ―Kirkus Reviews on Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
“An amusing but thoughtful look at what might happen to our culture if the World Wide Web went down for good.” ―FantasyLiterature.com on Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
“An oddly heartfelt journey through the wasteland of a techno-collapse. Gladstone takes an admittedly far-fetched and off-putting story idea and breathes startling life into it. He gambles here, but he wins. Give it a read.” ―Patton Oswalt on Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
“This is satire in its purest form: an exaggerated, filthy and ridiculous world - which happens to be exactly the world we live in. Gladstone has conceived and successfully executed a clever thought experiment that illustrates just how crazy the Internet has made all of us. Witty, profane and entertaining.” ―Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, on Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
“Wayne Gladstone's satire is a high-concept page-turner brimming with LOL-worthy one-liners and observations about the web-addicted zombies we've become and the price we've paid for our sins. The best way to sum up the reading experience would be an emoticon that has yet to be invented.” ―Teddy Wayne, author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, on Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
“Gladstone's novel makes it clear that losing the Internet would indeed be apocalyptic, but it would also be funny, thrilling, and would perhaps be necessary to remind us of who we really are.” ―John Warner, Editor-at-Large of McSweeney's Internet Tendency and author of The Funny Man, on Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
“A story whose humor is matched by its insight into technology's effect on our relationships. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll beg your Internet provider to never leave you.” ―Frank Lesser, writer for The Colbert Report and author of Sad Monsters, on Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
“This book has the most unique premise of any book I have ever read. ... Agents Of The Internet Apocalypse is 250 pages of interesting. I can't wait for the third one.” ―Geeks of Doom
“With fewer jokes but still plenty of snark, this is required reading for fans of its predecessor. And until the finalvolume, all the disconnected Net junkies out there will be craving a fix.” ―Booklist on Agents of the Internet Apocalypse
About the Author WAYNE GLADSTONE is a longtime columnist for Cracked.com and the author of Notes from the Internet Apocalypse. He is the creator and star of the Hate by Numbers online video series. His writing has appeared on McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Comedy Central's Indecision, and in the collections You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News and The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes. He lives in New York.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A Modern Classic By Liz Coleman Gladstone's Quixotic adventure continues in this sequel to Notes From The Internet Apocalypse. Without wanting to give too much away about Notes, this novel is a much bigger, brighter and more cogent story than its prequel, without losing any of the thoughtful, contemporary existentialism that makes the first novel so special and un-put-downable. Unsurprisingly, I couldn't put this book down either.The novel begins with Gladstone in a mental hospital, and soon takes us to Los Angeles, where an investigation unfolds that both echoes and progresses from the investigation in New York. We find Tobey in his natural habitat, Romaya as a real person, and Gladstone finds himself on a different mission than the one he set out to complete. The coastal switch is one of many inversions from the first novel, and another is that this storytelling has gone from deliberately fuzzy and fractured to driven and structured, but still thoughtful, witty, and funny in all the right places. Modern social and political issues are examined through the satirical lens the Internet Apocalypse landscape fosters so well – sometimes overt and bold, sometimes so incredibly subtle that I feel certain there'll be more to discover on a dozenth read. It's clear from much of his work that Wayne Gladstone strives for the perfect balance between intellectual sophistication and irreverent silliness, and despite how incredibly difficult it is to pull that off, he has succeeded here.When I say Gladstone's adventure is Quixotic, I don't mean in the sense of being synonymous with foolish (although there is certainly an element of that) – I mean in the literary sense, in the sense of all the things that make Don Quixote wonderful. How is it that we came to love the world's most misguided and ineffectual protagonist so fiercely? The same way it's so easy to love the protagonist of the Internet Apocalypse series. Even as he punctuates his observations of the post-Internet world with scathing criticisms of the people in it, Gladstone passionately believes in humanity and optimism and love, the way that Don Quixote believes in heroism and chivalry. Like he says in the novel, Gladstone believes in "pure things". And like Quixote, he will never stop fighting for those beliefs, no matter how many beatings he takes or defeats he suffers. Both authors share a flair for somehow making obnoxious irreverence into something subversive and endearing, as well as meaningful use of metafiction and exploration of the author-protagonist relationship.Reading this novel, I found that every discovery Gladstone makes about himself, and observation he makes about the internet-addicted world, is a self-discovery for the reader, or at least uncomfortably familiar. It's no easy thing to hold a mirror up to the world in a way that makes us look and think rather than turn away in abjection; it's a fine line to walk, and Wayne Gladstone walks it masterfully.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. and have come to truly love these characters By Sarah Packard A worthy follow-up to the delicious 'Notes from the Internet Apocalypse', this takes you further into the eerie world of Gladstone, his friends and enemies in a post-Internet America. A little darker than its predecessor, but just as addictive! I cannot wait for the the third installment of the trilogy, and have come to truly love these characters!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. In the Internet Apocalypse, Gladstone lost everything. But he had no idea how much he had to lose. By Amazon Customer If you haven't read Notes from the Internet Apocalypse yet, you have to go do that now. Enjoy, I'll see you soon.If you have read Notes, what are you doing here? The next book is out, it's time to dive into What Happens Next! ...Unless, of course, you're like me, and you just love reading all the blurbs for books you're excited about.And if I'm extra, super-excited, I might just write a blurb of my own...***********In the Internet Apocalypse, Gladstone lost everything. But he had no idea how much he had to lose.In the first book, Notes from the Internet Apocalypse, Gladstone’s breakdown rewrites the world. In Agents, he’s writing himself into sanity – and the delusion becomes more real by the sentence. Gladstone’s style is spare, and, without the shattered thinking of the first book, you'll find this a fast read. But the stanzas still slip in and stay, and the images still catch you up and make you shake.This Internet Apocalypse trilogy is Don Quixote, as another reviewer has ably discussed. But while Notes sang Kafka (by way of Tom Sharpe), Agents is more noir, a dark thriller propelling a crippled detective. This man was nearly hard-boiled, but he's trying to see the way back to what he values. He knows he still loves. He knows the things he once tried to be. But he’s stuck in that two am, heart-pounding wakeup, knowing he should be doing something that matters. So he does what he finds in front of him. Looks for the internet. Carries a letter.How do adults translate dreams into the everyday? When we discover that the world will not give us a thing, or remember that we’re supposed to keep what we have? When we’re working against entropy, and our hopes depend on small, unpredictable (common) things, like most everyone being too tired?And how do all these silly, underutilized, over-tired people save the world?Gladstone's take on the Apocalypse refuses to diminish humanity. This doomsday frightens, it blows up our foibles with dark and often funny results, but these memes and trolls and furious reactors, they are all people, with their mixed decencies and mercies. An element of satire exists, but does not abandon its targets to our first perceptions. I find it kinder than our news feed, where entire human beings are discarded when I label, when I refuse to believe that names in headlines can make mistakes or learn.*Despite the premise, Gladstone's world is our world. Our fear and fanaticism and deep distrust. It is surprising that more people don’t go mad in this fickle place, but the things that make it matter – the friends that get our jokes, the strangers that give grace when we're at our least, the imperfect moments, the love -- they all somehow make sense of the senseless.In the end, the challenge is shared with the reader, to make connections and find a way forward. If we lost the internet today, what part of ourselves would we miss?*********Please hurry up and read, so we can talk about this! Further discussions I'd like to have:- *To this point, one character who is only seen through the media in Agents will require consideration. - Governments, like good fathers, should give us the laws and tools that still allow us to be different people than they are. - Living in this climate of easy public shame and extremist talking points, many of us will connect with how realistically we could become the target of a witch hunt, just by being ourselves.
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