{"product_id":"public-access-afterworld-by-jane-schoenbrun-signed","title":"Public Access Afterworld by Jane Schoenbrun SIGNED","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished 27 October 2026  SIGNED copies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to Public Access Afterworld, the profound, read-through-the-night,\u003cbr\u003eheadrush of a novel by an undeniable new voice in contemporary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow far would you go to bring back the only person who ever felt like home?\u003cbr\u003e'A riot in novel form by an author with an utterly singular, original vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublic Access Afterworld will leave you breathless and desperate for a sequel'\u003cbr\u003eKALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of Time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 12th June 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban\u003cbr\u003eteens 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\u003cbr\u003ebroadcast from a TV network called 'Public Access Afterworld'. Soon after that, she\u003cbr\u003evanishes - changing the trajectory of David's life forever.\u003cbr\u003eFourteen years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill's\u003cbr\u003ebleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing an\u003cbr\u003eendless stream of horrific videos. But gradually a pattern emerges from the ocean of\u003cbr\u003edigital violence in the form of a young streamer, Jules, calling out the same words: Public\u003cbr\u003eAccess Afterworld.\u003cbr\u003eWhen Bethany ignores the guidance of her corporate overseers and sets out to rescue\u003cbr\u003eJules, she begins an epic journey that sweeps from rural Texas to the heart of American\u003cbr\u003edarkness in 1940s Los Alamos - and all the way back to that basement where David and\u003cbr\u003eErin first encountered a world at the edges of reality itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAN UNFORGETTABLE LITERARY EPIC. Page-turning storytelling that plays with\u003cbr\u003egenre, in the tradition and spirit of Stephen King, David Mitchell and Ursula Le Guin;\u003cbr\u003eperfect for fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Stranger Things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAN ICONIC STORYTELLER. Jane Schoenbrun is the writer\/director of the criticallyacclaimed\u003cbr\u003eI Saw the TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a major\u003cbr\u003enew film starring Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder, which premiered to rave\u003cbr\u003ereviews at C annes in May and releases in cinemas in August. Their blockbuster\u003cbr\u003eadaptation of the graphic novel Black Hole is in the works at Netflix. This is their first\u003cbr\u003enovel and a major focus during a year poised to make them a household name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kemps General Store \u0026 Kemps Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56752285876610,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0374\/4576\/3117\/files\/SignedCopiesAvailable.png?v=1783427266","url":"https:\/\/www.kempsgeneralstore.co.uk\/products\/public-access-afterworld-by-jane-schoenbrun-signed","provider":"Kemps General Store \u0026 Kemps Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}