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ISBN-10: 1683964314
ISBN-13: 9781683964315
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Publish Date: 03/22/2022
Dimensions: 10.20" L, 7.00" W, 0.90" H

Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse

Foreword by: Christopher Brown

Hardcover

Price: $24.99

Overview

This groundbreaking collection, originally published in an Eisner-nominated, smaller edition a decade ago, has only proven more prescient and resonant to our contemporary times than ever. For this new edition, Kaczynski created the original stories Billion Dollar Budget and Rediscovery of the Real and annotations. There’s also a new foreword by science fiction writer Christopher Brown (Tropic of Kansas) and an entirely new cover design. Tom Kaczynski’s graphic short stories trace a complex space-time trajectory from the smallest corporate cubicle out to farthest fathoms of the multiverse. Occult economics, metaphysical traffic jams, Marxist zombies on Mars, secret architectural societies, designer ghosts from the future, and demographics demons are just a few elements of a new untested future eschatology.

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[For the previous edition]: It's not important what happens to the people in Kaczynski's comics; what's important is how they process a world that's crumbling and becoming harder to navigate by the day. They adjust, in the same way that people in a dream learn to accept talking animals or purple skies or whatever other strangeness abounds. And in Beta Testing The Apocalypse, the fact of that adjustment is even more disturbing than doomsday.– "The A.V. Club"
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Details

ISBN-10: 1683964314
ISBN-13: 9781683964315
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Publish Date: 03/22/2022
Dimensions: 10.20" L, 7.00" W, 0.90" H
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