{"product_id":"9781250883490","title":"Newphoria!","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY AND WILL BE RELEASED ON 10 AUGUST \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e2027\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author Olivie Blake comes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEWPHORIA!,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ea playful yet biting dystopian satire about what happens if we get the future we deserve.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's 2075 and time once again for the annual Senecan Games, a fight-to-the-death tournament in which the sinful are contestants, as nominated online by their neighbors, mutuals, and IRL friends. But who has time to stream murder games in this economy?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJust as the Senecan begins, Wolfie Anderson-Spencer, an archival researcher of millennial culture at Oxford, discovers historical memes may have been erased from his carefully curated files. As his forebears would say: highly sus!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis seemingly individual IT issue leads Wolfie to the sinister discovery of outwardly unrelated secrets, including a survivalist cult's mysterious massacre, a pop star's cancellation and election to the first Senecan games, and a lonely young woman named Dolores who has managed to avoid the watchful eye of big tech - until now. She just may be the only hope of saving humanity from the dark web of exploitation that we unwittingly opted into.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMoving back and forth in time, from the makeshift swamps of London to the abandoned ruins of the Central California coast, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEWPHORIA!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an eccentric, character-driven novel that explores technofeudalism, the dopamine hit of clicking \"buy,\" and what happens if we actually get the future we deserve.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blake, Olivie","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48708084138238,"sku":"9781250883490","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/1532\/4335\/files\/Newphoria.png?v=1790391769","url":"https:\/\/wanderingraccoonbooks.com\/products\/9781250883490","provider":"Wandering Raccoon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}