num_pages: 1085
description: Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it’s their lives that pursue them.
language: English
title: Against the Day
titlecomplete: Against the Day
genres: American, Historical, Steampunk, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 9506
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ
category: Αγγλόφωνη Λογοτεχνία, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Penguin Books