Afterparty - Brossura

'This is a road trip revelation for a new generation.' --Sci Fi Now

'Energetic, violent and darkly funny, and touches on serious questions about faith and belief.' --Financial Times

'Clever, philosophical sci-fi thriller.' --The Sun < br/>
An Amazon.com Best Book of the Month, April 2014: Lyda Rose and her colleagues had the best intentions: to create a drug that would cure schizophrenia. Instead, she's in a mental hospital, saddled with a permanent hallucination of a doctor with angel's wings. When a newly admitted teenaged girl commits suicide rather than deal with withdrawal, Lyda recognizes the symptoms and realizes that her drug has hit the streets. She arranges her own release, helps her lover (a paranoid ex-government agent) break out of the hospital, and tries to find out where the drug is coming from. Combining elements of near-future science fiction, cyber-thriller, and whodunit mystery, Daryl Gregory takes us on a pulse-racing, brain-bending adventure that reads like the enthusiastic retelling of a crazy acid trip--twisted and imaginative and frightening and funny and intense. Along the way we investigate drug-pushing churches, we double-cross a gang run by ruthless old ladies, we team up with Native American smugglers, we dodge a split-personality urban rancher, and perhaps most dangerous of all, we try to track down Lyda's old scientific team in search of answers. --Robin A. Rothman

Both irreverent and sympathetic to the sincere Numinous-addicted believers, the tragi-comical satire dispenses with sermons and easy morals, preferring to be entertaining and thought-provoking instead. Publishers Weekly

International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) William L. Crawford Fantasy Award winner Gregory (Pandemonium; Raising Stony Mayhall) takes on the pharmaceutical industry, drug dealers, religion, and the intricacies of how our brains work. The way the author combines the energy of a thriller with the ideas of sf is reminiscent of William Gibson's best one-step-into-the-future novels like Pattern Recognition. --Library Journal (starred review)
br > "The writing is gripping, exciting and flows at a pace both adrenaline inducing and calming at the same time." -- --The Cult Den

Daryl Gregory is an award-winning science fiction author. His first novel, Pandemonium, won the Crawford Award, and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. The Devil's Alphabet was a Philip K. Dick Award finalist and was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of the year. His third book, Raising Stony Mayhall was a Library Journal Best Book of 2011. He lives in State College, PA.