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Title	:	The Postmortal
Author	:	Drew Magary
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 369 pages
Published	:	August 30th 2011 by Penguin Group USA
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fantasy

The Postmortal

Drew Magary

Paperback | Pages: 369 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 10249 Users | 1270 Reviews

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John Farrell is about to get "The Cure."

Old age can never kill him now.

The only problem is, everything else still can...

Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after much political and moral debate-made available to people worldwide. Immortality, however, comes with its own unique problems-including evil green people, government euthanasia programs, a disturbing new religious cult, and other horrors.

Witty, eerie, and full of humanity, The Postmortal is an unforgettable thriller that envisions a pre-apocalyptic world so real that it is completely terrifying.

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Original Title:	The Postmortal
ISBN:	0143119826 (ISBN13: 9780143119821)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee for Best Novel (2012), Philip K. Dick Award Nominee (2012)

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My review for this book was first published in The New York Journal of Books in 2011. I reproduce it here:Earlier this month, in August 2011, the eyes of the world fixated on England as widespread rioting seized the country, leading to thousands of arrests, millions of Euros in property damage, and even a handful of deaths. The anarchic breakdown of law and order captivated anyone with a television set, perhaps because watching lawless chaos provides us with an unusual, vicarious thrill.But what

I was expecting something funny and light, but The Postmortal turned out to be surprisingly serious and somewhat disturbing. I really enjoyed it, although the final section dragged a little and the stuff with Solara just didn't really work for me. The Solara storyline seemed like it came out of nowhere. The story of how the world copes with an ageless population was fascinating and some of my favorite parts of the book were the news articles and transcripts that didn't deal so much with John's

There's a lot to really like about this book. Most reviews mention this book's ability to dismantle the concept of immortality down to its absolute bare bones and explore every possible negative outcome, and that is really true: Peter Pan babies! Cycle marriages! Meaninglessness of professional sports records! Birth date tattoos!What's funny is that the narrative device (the text is a blog kept by the narrator recovered at a later future date) reminded me a lot of The Handmaid's Tale. In

"Cure for aging" stories are a dime a dozen in SF, with Joe Haldeman's Buying Time probably my favorite example of the genre. Postmortal covers much of the same emotional ground as Haldeman's book, except that it's a good deal more depressing.Immortality is rarely seen as a positive thing in science fiction and this book is no exception. The problem here is that it becomes so relentlessly depressing that there seems to be no upside to "The Cure" at all. Everything goes straight to hell

I absolutely loved Magary's second novel The Hike a bizarre, brilliantly written story that came off to me like a compressed version of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower".It was good enough to move "The Postmortal" way up my to-read list. I have been a fan of Magary aka "Big Daddy Balls" for years for his work as a puerile, poop obsessed man-child sportswriter at Deadspin. It was shocking to find how polished and accomplished "the hike" was and even more so to find "The Postmortal" to be a

Re-read Feb 2018I often credit the End Specialist with being the book that got me back into reading, which sounds a bit odd when you take into account that it was a book I grabbed off the shelf of the library I'd been working in for a year and a half. It wasjust such a surprising breath of fresh, rancid air that it reignited my late teen love affair with reading and set me on the path to hipster reader wankerness that I've attained today.Chronicling the life of John Farrell, a blogging late-20's

http://www.rantingdragon.com/review-o...What if you could simply stop aging? This is the question that lies at the heart of Drew Magarys debut novel, The Postmortal. Told through what is essentially a series of electronic diary entries written by a man named John Farrell, The Postmortal chronicles the near-future where a cure for aging has been discovered and humanity has taken its first tentative steps toward immortality.Living foreverthats great, right?Maybe not. The cure for aging that sparks