Lyda is a brilliant scientist and one of the co-creators of a drug originally developed to treat schizophrenics. It begins with the story of a young woman that quickly segues into the story of another, older inmate at the mental hospital. But a recent run at Harrison Squared encouraged me to trust Gregory. I wasn’t excited to read Afterparty I’ve been less than impressed with books revolving around drug culture (I’m talking to you, A Scanner Darkly and Less Than Zero). I’ll admit it: I judged a book by its cover. I gave the dogs an extra treat, grabbed my swim bag and keys, and headed to the car, unable to organize my thoughts enough to be sure I remembered everything, still only partly in the physical world. I had rushed the end of the book, knowing time was passing, but unwilling to stop reading. With a start, I realized swim practice started in five minutes, and there was no way I was going to be on time. The dogs realized I was interactive again and came over to beg for (more) dinner. It was dark outside the sun had set while I was reading, and all the curtains were still open. I turned the last page of Afterparty in a daze. Dick’s Ubik, and perhaps a bit of Peter Watts’s Starfish: a last chance to save civilization, or die trying. With the help of an ex-government agent and an imaginary, drug-induced doctor, Lyda sets out to find the other three survivors of the five who made the Numinous in a quest to set things right.Ī mind-bending and violent chase across Canada and the US, Daryl Gregory's Afterparty is a marvelous mix of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, Philip K. Lyda Rose, another patient in that detention facility, has a dark secret: she was one of the original scientists who developed the drug. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass.
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Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution.
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