{"product_id":"public-access-afterworld-by-jane-schoenbrun","title":"Public Access Afterworld By Jane Schoenbrun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-de47418c-7fff-8ef9-3c0f-20b9cca70a7c\"\u003eNOTE: This title releases on October 27th, 2026. If preordering, you may select pickup or delivery. Pickups can occur any time during normal business hours, starting with the day the book is officially released. If you select delivery, books will ship ON release day, not FOR release day. Thanks for your understanding!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA mysterious realm on the other side of our screens. A dark force that draws victims into its static. The unlikely hero called to save them and herself from this electric hell. \u003cem\u003ePublic Access Afterworld\u003c\/em\u003e is the profound, binge-all-night, headrush of a novel by the celebrated filmmaker of \u003cem\u003eI Saw the TV Glow\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautiful, funny, and scathing . . . I stayed up all night binge-reading.”—SenLinYu\u003cbr\u003e“Gave me a vertiginous thrill I haven’t encountered since David Mitchell.”—Torrey Peters\u003cbr\u003e“Psychedelic horror of the first order.”—Grady Hendrix\u003cbr\u003e“Heart-wrenching, hilarious, visionary, and so damned smart, this novel is a major work by a major writer.”—Paul Tremblay\u003cbr\u003e“Utterly hypnotic.”—Lev Grossman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003cem\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/em\u003e’s Most Anticipated Debuts of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFind the receiver. Make it real.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 5:35 p.m. on September 3, 1988, Dallas weatherman Ray “Can You Say Sunshine” Davino makes passing reference to Public Access Afterworld during a rambling monologue, right before he puts a gun to his head on live television and pulls the trigger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn June 12, 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin’s basement to watch TV’s analog-to-digital transition. But in the static that follows, Erin witnesses surreal broadcasts from a pirate TV network called Public Access Afterworld, and their lives are changed forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventeen 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 an endless stream of horrific videos. But then a young streamer begins to crop up in her feed calling out to Public Access Afterworld.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003ePublic Access Afterworld?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning decades and realities, with an unforgettable ensemble of outcasts and nerds—especially the messy but wholly relatable Bethany, who must overcome paranoia and self-doubt to transform into a hero of our times—\u003cem\u003ePublic Access Afterworld \u003c\/em\u003ewill have you reading through the night and rooting for its characters to survive. A mesmerizing mash-up of speculative fiction, horror, and conspiracy, it marks the arrival of a major new force in contemporary fiction by a groundbreaking filmmaker who’s been compared to David Lynch and Paul Thomas Anderson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":56684170936486,"sku":"9780593978382","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/4637\/7638\/files\/9780593978382.jpg?v=1782063377","url":"https:\/\/woollybearbooks.com\/products\/public-access-afterworld-by-jane-schoenbrun","provider":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}