TY - SER
KW - physicians
KW - attorneys
KW - Slovak Americans
KW - artists
KW - Czech Americans
KW - poets
KW - apocalypse
KW - FBI
KW - virtual reality
KW - terrorism
KW - grief
KW - graduate students
KW - "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
KW - insurance industry
KW - WYEP Summer Music Festival
KW - Protestants
AU - Thomas Sweterlitsch
AB - Ten years after Pittsburgh’s nuclear destruction by terrorists, John Dominic Blaxton, whose pregnant wife died in the attack, retraces this apocalypse by means of the Archive—an interactive, virtual-reality reproduction of the Steel City. Obsessed with the ghosts of Pittsburgh past, Blaxton uncovers glitches in the computer code that reveal the secret of Pittsburgh’s destruction and its present nightmare.
C1 - 2050s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Ohio River; Monongahela River; Pittsburgh; North Side; Chateau; Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild; Central Northside; Allegheny General Hospital; South Side; Prince of Peace Church; Oakland; Carnegie Museum; St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral; Spice Island Tea House; Phipps Conservatory; Schenley Plaza; Shadyside; Cappy’s Cafe; The Georgian apartments; Bloomfield; Lawrenceville; Strip District; Cork Factory Lofts; Downtown; Union Trust Building; Agnes R. Katz Plaza; Greenfield; Big Jim’s; St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church; Polish Hill; Immaculate Heart of Mary Church; Lili Cafe; East Liberty; Kelly’s Bar & Lounge; Squirrel Hill; Chatham University; Schenley Park; Carnegie Mellon University; Lawrence County; New Castle; New Castle Farmers Market
C4 - Science Fiction; Disaster; Literary; Utopian/Dystopian; Mystery
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Ten years after Pittsburgh’s nuclear destruction by terrorists, John Dominic Blaxton, whose pregnant wife died in the attack, retraces this apocalypse by means of the Archive—an interactive, virtual-reality reproduction of the Steel City. Obsessed with the ghosts of Pittsburgh past, Blaxton uncovers glitches in the computer code that reveal the secret of Pittsburgh’s destruction and its present nightmare.
PB - Putnam
PP - New York
PY - 2014
RN - Thomas Sweterlitsch (1977- ), raised in Canton, Ohio and educated at Carnegie Mellon University, worked for 12 years at the Carnegie Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
EP - 400 p.
TI - Tomorrow and Tomorrow
ER -