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Infinite Detail

By: Tim Maughan
Narrated by: Joe Sims, Marisa Calin
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Summary

A Locus Award Finalist for Best First Novel

A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the internet.

This program includes a bonus interview between the author and journalist Brian Merchant.

Before: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, it’s become a center of creative counterculture. But it’s fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside. How will it fare when its chief architect, Rushdi Mannan, takes off to meet his boyfriend in New York City - now the apotheosis of the new techno-utopian global metropolis?

After: An act of anonymous cyberterrorism has permanently switched off the internet. Global trade, travel, and communication have collapsed. The luxuries that characterized modern life are scarce. In the Croft, Mary - who has visions of people presumed dead - is sought out by grieving families seeking connections to lost ones. But does Mary have a gift or is she just hustling to stay alive? Like Grids, who runs the Croft’s black market like personal turf. Or like Tyrone, who hoards music (culled from cassettes, the only medium to survive the crash) and tattered sneakers like treasure.

The world of Infinite Detail is a small step shy of our own: utterly dependent on technology, constantly brokering autonomy and privacy for comfort and convenience. With Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan makes the hitherto-unimaginable come true: the end of the internet, the end of the world as we know it.

©2019 Tim Maughan (P)2019 Macmillan Audio
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Critic reviews

2019 The Guardian UK Best Books of the Year
2020 Locus Awards Nominee

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Captures the paranoia of the age and our own part in it. An uncomfortable listen.

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Yes mate! Epic story, brilliant production

Not normally a listener to fiction but this perfect blend of epic story and awesome exploration of potential social and technology trends. 10/10 would recommend

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Really good, Gibson esque in all the right ways

I enjoyed it. the tech was believable, the situation well researched and plausible. good pacing and interesting characters, the voice acting was impressive if a bit strange to begin with. the bonus interview was great.

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Returned it

I thought I was going to like this and it started out ok, but the story relied too heavily on exposition (getting rather preachy at times rather than letting the reader draw their own conclusions from actions and inferences) and, more detrimentally, I found the narrator and production to be grating.

The accents were OTT (I wouldn’t be surprised if some people found them offensive) and it was read more like a dramatisation than a narration. I don’t like it when dialogue is yelled in my ears and when prose is over dramatised; it makes for a tense listening experience.

There was also one very strange interlude where a section was read using a compilation of voices with electronic modulation—it was actually disturbing. Again, more what you expect of a dramatisation than a narration and it perhaps won’t bother people who are looking for this type of thing, but it wasn’t at all for me.

A shame, but I really can’t recommend it.

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