2013 Philip K.
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About the Author: One of Iceland\'s most celebrated young writers, ANDRI SN R Magnason is the author poetry, plays, fiction, and non-fiction, and in 2009 he co-directed the documentary Dreamland, which was based on his own book Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation.
Steeped in influences ranging from Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, and Kurt Vonnegut to George Orwell, Douglas Adams, and Monty Python, Andri Sn r Magnason has created a surreal yet uncomfortably familiar world, where the honey embrace of love does its utmost to survive amid relentless and overpowering controls.
Their journey ultimately puts them on a collision course with Love Star, who is on his own mission to find what might become the last idea in the world.
Indridi and Sigrid, two blissfully happy young lovers, have their perfect worlds threatened (along with Indridi\'s sanity) when they are "calculated apart" and are forced to go to extreme lengths to prove their love.
Cordless modern men and women are paid to howl advertisements at unsuspecting passers-by, REGRET machines eliminate doubt over roads not taken, soul mates are identified and brought together (while existing, unscientifically validated relationships are driven remorselessly asunder), and rocketing the dead into the sky becomes both a status symbol and a beautiful, cathartic show for those left behind.
His satire and insightful social commentary sweeten the pot and the sheer wackiness of Magnason\'s oversized imagination is invigorating."--Publishers Weekly, starred review Love Star, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the Love Star corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life.
Dick Award Special Citation of Excellence "Orwell, Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams are felt on every page, though Magnason is never derivative. 2013 Philip K
