Tuesday, February 28th, 7:00PM - Ryan Boudinot
Orca Books is proud to welcome novelist (and former Orca Pod member) Ryan Boudinot! Since working at Orca Books back in the 90s, Ryan has gone on to publish a collection of short stories and 2 novels, the latest of which is Blueprints of the Afterlife. Set in the years after the "Age of F****d-Up Sh*t," Blueprints of the Afterlife gives us a dystopic near-future of unchecked consumption and technological innovation.
Robert Olen Butler wrote of Boudinot's latest work, “Take every high voltage future-shock you can imagine about life as it’s shaping up in the twenty-first century, process it through one of the smartest and funniest and weirdly compassionate sensibilities you’ll find on this crazy planet at this crazy moment, and you get a novel named Blueprints of the Afterlife. This guy Ryan Boudinot is the WikiLeaks of the zeitgeist.”
Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here had this to say: “Wildly imaginative, smart, funny, and hopefully not prophetic, Blueprints of the Afterlife brings to mind Vonnegut, and finds Boudinot at the top of his game as a young writer to watch.”
While Tom Robbins called it “Digital where Brave New World is merely analog, Blueprints of the Afterlife makes both 1984 and the Book of Revelation seem like yesterday's news."
- Street:
- 509 E 4th Ave
- City:
- Olympia ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98501
- Country:
- United States
