Invisible Things

TitleInvisible Things
Year for Search2022
AuthorsJohnson, Mat(b. 1970)
Pagination259 pp.
Date Published2022
PublisherOne World/Penguin Random House
Place PublishedNew York
ISBN Number978-0-593-22925-5
KeywordsMale 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.