Infinite Detail: A Novel

Infinite Detail: A Novel

<p><b>A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet</b></p><p>BEFORE: In Bristol€s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man€s-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, it€s become a center of creative counterculture. But it€s fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside. How will it fare when its chief architect, Rushdi Mannan, takes off to meet his boyfriend in New York City€•now the apotheosis of the new techno-utopian global metropolis?</p><p>AFTER: An act of anonymous cyberterrorism has permanently switched off the Internet. Global trade, travel, and communication have collapsed. The luxuries that characterized modern life are scarce. In the Croft, Mary€•who has visions of people presumed dead€•is sought out by grieving families seeking connections to lost ones. But does Mary have a gift or is she just hustling to stay alive? Like Grids, who runs the Croft€s black market like personal turf. Or like Tyrone, who hoards music (culled from cassettes, the only medium to survive the crash) and tattered sneakers like treasure.</p><p>The world of <i>Infinite Detail</i> is a small step shy of our own: utterly dependent on technology, constantly brokering autonomy and privacy for comfort and convenience. With <i>Infinite Detail</i>, Tim Maughan makes the hitherto-unimaginable come true: the End of the Internet, the End of the World as We Know It.</p>