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    The Infinite Future: A Novel
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    The Infinite Future: A Novel

    Written by Tim Wirkus

    Narrated by Jonathan Davis, Hillary Huber and Michael Crouch

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    About this audiobook

    An exhilarating, original novel, set in Brazil, Idaho, and outer space, about an obsessive librarian, a down-at-heel author, and a disgraced historian who go on the hunt for a mystical, life-changing book—and find it.

    The Infinite Future is a mindbending novel that melds two page-turning tales in one. In the first, we meet three broken people, joined by an obsession with a forgotten Brazilian science-fiction author named Salgado-MacKenzie. There's Danny, a writer who's been scammed by a shady literary award committee; Sergio, journalist turned sub-librarian in São Paulo; and Harriet, an excommunicated Mormon historian in Salt Lake City, who years ago corresponded with the reclusive Brazilian writer. The motley trio sets off to discover his identity, and whether his fabled masterpiece—never published—actually exists. Did his inquiries into the true nature of the universe yield something so enormous that his mind was blown for good?

    In the second half, Wirkus gives us the lost masterpiece itself--the actual text of The Infinite Future, Salgado-MacKenzie's wonderfully weird magnum opus. The two stories merge in surprising and profound ways. Part science-fiction, part academic satire, and part book-lover's quest, this wholly original novel captures the heady way that stories inform and mirror our lives.

    Audiobook Cast of Narrators:
    Michael Crouch, as Danny
    Jonathan Davis, as Sergio
    Hillary Huber, as Harriet
    Phoebe Strole, as Sister Ursula
    Kristen Sieh, as Irena
    Sean Patrick Hopkins, as Tim
    Oliver Wyman, as Craig
    Carol Monda, as Madge

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 16, 2018
    ISBN9780525498605
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    The Infinite Future: A Novel
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    Tim Wirkus

    Tim Wirkus is the author of the novels The Infinite Future and City of Brick and Shadow, which was a finalist for the Shamus Award and the winner of the Association for Mormon Letters Best Novel Award. They hold a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Southern California.

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