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The Time of New Weather
by
Sean Murphy (Goodreads Author)
THE TIME OF NEW WEATHER IS AT HAND–AND IT’S NOT A PRETTY SIGHT.
In this exhilarating adventure of absurdist wit, rollicking revolution and romance, the future isn’t what it used to be and the past won’t leave us alone. Bringing to mind1984 and Brave New World–but with his own twist of gleeful humor–award-winning author Sean Murphy presents a vision of an America gone off th...more
In this exhilarating adventure of absurdist wit, rollicking revolution and romance, the future isn’t what it used to be and the past won’t leave us alone. Bringing to mind1984 and Brave New World–but with his own twist of gleeful humor–award-winning author Sean Murphy presents a vision of an America gone off th...more
Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Published
April 29th 2008
by Dell
(first published December 28th 2004)
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In Murphy's novel America is a land owned by the corporation, a place of the American dream gone bad. In this dystopian world changes made in the name of profit have resulted in shifts in environmental physics - gravity is no longer a constant, and weather is even less predictable. Enter a small group of renegades who want time to be linear, gravity to hold cows, etc to earth's surface, and rain to fall down, not up.
The premise is interesting if too wide (the balance btw real world ...more
The premise is interesting if too wide (the balance btw real world ...more
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Full disclosure: I'm married to the author
Just starting. I always find it weird to read a book when I know the author. Given that this is near future it's likely not autobiographical. I am often nervous when i encounter a juvenile character with a cute name who is either precocious or prescient, but I think it will be O.K.
Sean's writing is straightforward and witty and so far he's made the near-future aspects line up, logically (says the total non-scientist).
Update: 1/2 way through. I am enjoying this quite a bit. The autho...more
Sean's writing is straightforward and witty and so far he's made the near-future aspects line up, logically (says the total non-scientist).
Update: 1/2 way through. I am enjoying this quite a bit. The autho...more
Scientists have managed to play havoc with both time and gravity, and a corporation has bought out America in The Time of New Weather – it all seems rather bleak. However, there is still hope. One of these is Buddy, the worker of small miracles. With his circus co-workers, and inspired by another dissent group (The Dreamers) he sets off to put America right again. Along the way, he might also find an empty mind, love, and his father.
A whimsical, more gentle Tom Robbins, Sean Mu...more
A whimsical, more gentle Tom Robbins, Sean Mu...more
This seemed more silly than really Absurdist Lit. Very loose story line, but allowed the author a way to write different whacko characters and various puns.
This was an odd book. So apropo in so many ways to the climate (political and weather of today). It was funny in the twists of names. Overall it was a good book. It took me a long time to read. The characters were unique and interesting enough to keep me reading. I think I will read his first novel.
If 1984, Brave New World and Animal Farm had a child, it would be this book.
Soo deliciously good
Soo deliciously good
I randomly picked this up and it sounded pretty interesting.
As soon as I started reading, I knew I was going to love it. It's irreverent at times, but at its heart very meaningful and also romantic. The absurdities of the book's America Corporation hit pretty close to home; it's a nice sort of warning utopia novel but with a happy ending.
I would recommend this for anyone who loves a good book, for anyone who loves a good love story, and for anyone who's interested in the commerciali...more
As soon as I started reading, I knew I was going to love it. It's irreverent at times, but at its heart very meaningful and also romantic. The absurdities of the book's America Corporation hit pretty close to home; it's a nice sort of warning utopia novel but with a happy ending.
I would recommend this for anyone who loves a good book, for anyone who loves a good love story, and for anyone who's interested in the commerciali...more
A fun and thoughtful comic novel tinged with science fiction. It's a bit reminiscent of Vonnegut in its style.
The new weather refers to gravity storms which means things that aren't nailed down are likely to rise.
In an America taken over by corporate interests where freedoms are gradually being erroded, the ex-president and a quirky group of protesters plan a massive non-violent effort to change things.
The new weather refers to gravity storms which means things that aren't nailed down are likely to rise.
In an America taken over by corporate interests where freedoms are gradually being erroded, the ex-president and a quirky group of protesters plan a massive non-violent effort to change things.
Random strip from today. I'd never heard of it, but it sounds great.
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SEAN MURPHY'S debut novel, The Hope Valley Hubcap King, (Bantam/Dell, 2002/2004), won the Hemingway Award for a First Novel and was a 2003 Book Sense pick. See info on his latest, The Time of New Weather, below. He is also the author of the Pulitzer-nominated The Finished Man (Bantam/Dell 2004), as well as One Bird, One Stone (Renaissance/St. Martins 2002), a nonfiction chronicle of Zen practice i...more
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