num_pages: 304
description: It begins in Toronto in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention and without the drug commits suicide.Lyda Rose another patient in that detention facility has a dark secret: she was one of the original scientists who developed the drug. With the help of an ex-government agent and an imaginary drug-induced doctor Lyda sets out to find the other three survivors of the five who made the Numinous in a quest to set things right.A mind-bending and violent chase across Canada and the US Daryl Gregory's Afterparty is a marvelous mix of William Gibsons Neuromancer Philip K. Dicks Ubik and perhaps a bit of Peter Wattss Starfish: a last chance to save civilization or die trying.
language: English
title: Afterparty
publisher: Tor Books