Synopses & Reviews
Thomas Sweterlitsch is a superstar. ... Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a brutal, beautiful book. Read it.” Jesse Kellerman, internationally bestselling author of Trouble
Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a rich, absorbing, relentlessly inventive mindfuck, a smart, dark noir
a wild mash-up of Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, and William S. Burroughs and, like their work, utterly visionary." Stewart ONan, author of The Odds
Yesterday Can't Last Forever...
A decade has passed since the city of Pittsburgh was reduced to ash.
While the rest of the world has moved on, losing itself in the noise of a media-glutted future, survivor John Dominic Blaxton remains obsessed with the past. Grieving for his wife and unborn child who perished in the blast, Dominic relives his lost life by immersing in the Archivea fully interactive digital reconstruction of Pittsburgh, accessible to anyone who wants to visit the places they remember and the people they loved.
Dominic investigates deaths recorded in the Archive to help close cases long since grown cold, but when he discovers glitches in the code surrounding a crime scenethe body of a beautiful woman abandoned in a muddy park that hes convinced someone tried to delete from the Archivehis cycle of grief is shattered.
With nothing left to lose, Dominic tracks the murder through a web of deceit that takes him from the darkest corners of the Archive to the ruins of the city itself, leading him into the heart of a nightmare more horrific than anything he could have imagined.
Review
Fantastic Praise for
Tomorrow and Tomorrow Playboy's Book of The Month
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a delicious dystopian mystery being described as Blade Runner meets Minority Report.” —Kirkus Reviews Blog “The premise of this debut novel is fascinating in its possibilities… John's grief is a palpable, living thing, preventing him from participating in his own life. Fans of William Gibson and classic noir will love how the styles intersect here.” —Library Journal, Starred Review and Debut of the Month
"It's quite unusual for a first-time writer to have such a command of so many literary styles… It's fiction, of course, but just close enough to our reality to be disturbing.” —Pittsburgh Tribune “If good science fiction is true to the dictum that the future is just like now only more so, then Tomorrow and Tomorrow is great science fiction.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Vivid and compelling.” —Publishers Weekly
“Its a testament to Sweterlitschs skill that he makes the reader feel Dominics grief for his wife and unborn daughter so powerfully… Vividly and beautifully written.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Simultaneously trippy and hard-boiled, Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a rich, absorbing, relentlessly inventive mindfuck, a smart, dark noir…Sweterlitschs debut is a wild mash-up of Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, and William S. Burroughs and, like their work, utterly visionary.”
—Stewart ONan, author of The Odds
“Thomas Sweterlitsch is a superstar. Right out of the blocks, he's managed to achieve what most authors never do: the creation of a world so complete-so sensually rich and emotionally authentic-that it reduces the real world to a pale impression. Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a brutal, beautiful book. Read it.” —Jesse Kellerman, internationally bestselling author of Trouble
“A brilliantly disturbing tale of deceit, and the tangled griefs of murder and conspiracy that haunt a virtual world. Thomas Sweterlitsch writes with deft and uncanny prescience about a future that seems all-too-likely. A must-read for lovers of tech noir.”
— Yangsze Choo, internationally bestselling author of The Ghost Bride
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow is weird, hypnotic, and lovely. Sweterlitschs future is close enough to be plausible, and strange enough to be fascinating.”
— Django Wexler, author of The Thousand Names
“A mesmerizing, genre-mixing sci-fi, noir mystery that inhabits its influences rather than merely wearing them knowingly on its sleeve. I could not put it down.”
—Wayne Gladstone, author of Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
Synopsis
Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope. The Gone World follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.
Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In Western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family--and to locate his teenage daughter, who has disappeared. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra--a ship assumed lost to the darkest currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.
Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence or insight that will crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself.
Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.
About the Author
Thomas Sweterlitsch is the author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow, which has been sold in four countries and optioned for film by Sony. He has a masters degree in literary and cultural theory from Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and daughter.