Public Access Afterworld by Jane Schoenbrun SIGNED

Published 27 October 2026  SIGNED copies

Welcome to Public Access Afterworld, the profound, read-through-the-night,
headrush of a novel by an undeniable new voice in contemporary fiction.

How far would you go to bring back the only person who ever felt like home?
'A riot in novel form by an author with an utterly singular, original vision.

Public Access Afterworld will leave you breathless and desperate for a sequel'
KALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of Time

On 12th June 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban
teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin's basement to watch TV's analogue-todigitaltransition. Beneath the static that follows, Erin catches a glimpse of a mysterious
broadcast from a TV network called 'Public Access Afterworld'. Soon after that, she
vanishes - changing the trajectory of David's life forever.
Fourteen years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill's
bleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing an
endless stream of horrific videos. But gradually a pattern emerges from the ocean of
digital violence in the form of a young streamer, Jules, calling out the same words: Public
Access Afterworld.
When Bethany ignores the guidance of her corporate overseers and sets out to rescue
Jules, she begins an epic journey that sweeps from rural Texas to the heart of American
darkness in 1940s Los Alamos - and all the way back to that basement where David and
Erin first encountered a world at the edges of reality itself.

AN UNFORGETTABLE LITERARY EPIC. Page-turning storytelling that plays with
genre, in the tradition and spirit of Stephen King, David Mitchell and Ursula Le Guin;
perfect for fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Stranger Things.

AN ICONIC STORYTELLER. Jane Schoenbrun is the writer/director of the criticallyacclaimed
I Saw the TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a major
new film starring Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder, which premiered to rave
reviews at C annes in May and releases in cinemas in August. Their blockbuster
adaptation of the graphic novel Black Hole is in the works at Netflix. This is their first
novel and a major focus during a year poised to make them a household name.