Invisible Things
Title | Invisible Things |
Year for Search | 2022 |
Authors | Johnson, Mat(b. 1970) |
Pagination | 259 pp. |
Date Published | 2022 |
Publisher | One World/Penguin Random House |
Place Published | New York |
ISBN Number | 978-0-593-22925-5 |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | The novel is largely set in New Roanoke, a city encased in a bubble on Europa, Jupiter’s largest moon, that is inhabited by people abducted from Earth. The city is, much like cities on Earth, deeply divided by wealth, has an economy based on meaningless consumption, and is ruled by an elite, Earth develops a plan to rescue the abductees that, of course, does not work as intended. |
Author Note | The author is a professor at the University of Oregon's Creative Writing Program |
Full Text | 2022 Johnson, Mat (b. 1970). Invisible Things. New York: One World/Penguin Random House. 259 pp. The novel is largely set in New Roanoke, a city encased in a bubble on Europa, Jupiter’s largest moon, that is inhabited by people abducted from Earth. The city is, much like cities on Earth, deeply divided by wealth, has an economy based on meaningless consumption, and is ruled by an elite, Earth develops a plan to rescue the abductees that, of course, does not work as intended. The author is a professor at the University of Oregon's Creative Writing Program. |