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
Early Praise for
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
"Simultaneously trippy and hardboiled, Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a rich, absorbing, relentlessly inventive mindfuck, a smart, dark noir… Sweterlisch's debut is a wild mashup of Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick and William S. Burroughs, and, like their work, utterly visionary."
—Stewart ONan author of The Odds
“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
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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
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Praise for Tomorrow and Tomorrow
“[A] bleak, gorgeous romp through a pornographic and political American id. 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
“Vividly and beautifully written.”—Kirkus Reviews
“The premise of this debut novel is fascinating in its possibilities…Fans of William Gibson and classic noir will love how the styles intersect here.”—Library Journal
“[A] fascinating work of dystopian fiction, stuffed to the seams with ideas, striking visuals, and raw emotion.”—Tor.com
“Vivid and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly
“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
“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
Synopsis
Thomas Sweterlitsch is a superstar. ...Tomorrow and Tomorrowis a brutal, beautiful book. Read it. Jesse Kellerman, internationally bestselling author ofTrouble
Tomorrow and Tomorrowis 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 O Nan, author ofThe Odds
Yesterday Can't Last Forever...
A decadehas passed since the city of Pittsburgh was reduced to ash.
While therest of the world has moved on, losing itself inthe noise of a media-glutted future, survivor John DominicBlaxtonremains obsessed with the past. Grieving for his wife and unborn child who perished in the blast, Dominicrelives hislost life by immersing inthe Archive a fully interactive digitalreconstruction of Pittsburgh, accessible to anyonewho 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 scene the body of a beautiful woman abandoned in a muddy park that he s convinced someone tried to delete from the Archive his cycle of grief is shattered.
With nothingleft to lose, Dominic tracks the murder through a web of deceit that takes himfrom the darkest corners of the Archive to theruins of the city itself, leading him into the heart of a nightmare more horrific than anything he couldhave imagined."
Synopsis
"A wild mash-up of Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, and William S. Burroughs" (Stewart ONan, author of The Odds), the near-future thriller Tomorrow and Tomorrow is an insightful exploration of humanitys relationship with evolving virtual environments and an accurate portrayal of how the technology that was developed to connect people inevitably isolates them
Pittsburgh is John Dominic Blaxtons home even though the city has been uninhabitable ruin and ash for the past decade. The Pittsburgh Dominic lives in is the Archive, an immersive virtual reconstruction of the citys buildings, parks, and landmarks, as well as the people who once lived there. Including Dominics wife and unborn child.
When hes not reliving every recorded moment with his wife in an endless cycle of desperation and despair, Dominic investigates mysterious deaths preserved in the Archive before Pittsburghs destruction. His latest cold case is the apparent murder of a woman whose every appearance is deliberately being deleted from the Archive.
Obsessed with uncovering this womans identity and what happened to her, Dominic follows a trail from the virtual world into reality. But finding the truth buried deep within an illusion means risking his sanity and his very existence
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.