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The amateurs / Liz Harmer.

by Harmer, Elizabeth.

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Alfred A. Knopf Canada, [2018]

Time travel -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction.

Survival -- Fiction.

San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.

9780345811240 (hc.)

327 p. ; 22 cm.

Allow us to introduce you to the newest product from PINA, the world's largest tech company. "Port" is a curiously irresistible device that offers the impossible: space-time travel mysteriously powered by nostalgia and longing. Step inside a Port and find yourself transported to wherever and whenever your heart desires: a bygone youth, a dreamed-of future, the fabled past. In the near-future world of Liz Harmer's extraordinary novel, Port becomes a phenomenon, but soon it is clear that many who pass through its portal won't be coming back--either unwilling to return or, more ominously, unable to do so. After a few short years, the population plummets. The grid goes down. Among those who remain is Marie, a thirty-something artist living in a small community of Port-resistors camping out in the abandoned mansions of a former steel town. As winter approaches the group considers heading south, but Marie clings to the hope that her long-lost lover will one day return to the spot where he disappeared. Meanwhile, PINA's corporate campus in California has become a cultish enclave of survivors. Brandon, the right-hand man to the mad genius who invented Port, decides to get out. He steals a car and drives north-east, where he hopes to find his missing mother. And there he meets Marie. The Amateurs is a story of rapture and romance, and a powerful debut novel about what happens when technology meets desire.

Apocalyptic fiction.

Futuristic fiction.

Science fiction.

Magic realism (Literature)

Canadian fiction.

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