The Afternet: 2012

Wednesday 4 April 2012

Book 2 hits the virtual shelves

The second instalment of The Afternet goes live on Amazon over Easter weekend 2012. For anyone who hasn't read the first one (and over a thousand people have) Book 1 is free on Saturday 7th April, Sunday 8th, and Monday 9th.

Monday 20 February 2012

Much much later

Haven't really got the hang of this blogging. Guess you should be writing more than once a year. Anyway, in case anyone is actually reading, here's the update. The Afternet had shifted over a thousand downloads, and the second one is in the can ready to go to the editing suite. I was intending to put a sample on here, but there's on ly a point if anyone is reading, so let me know. Oh, and yes, I will try to actually blog rather than just have one.

Read the latest review of The Afternet

Bruce Fellows reviews The Afternet in The R&W Directory:

FANTASTIC!

So, what to read on your Kindle, a noun so recent that dictionaries list it only as a verb? For something so new and fantastic, only something new and fantastic will do and you won’t find a more fantastic setting than the Pearly Gates. St Peter’s finally had enough of accepting and rejecting the applicants and slopes off for a snout and a spot of fishing in the Styx. The dead congregate and Heaven is about to get into a Hell of a mess. Peter Empringham’s first e book, The Afternet, chronicles what happens next. A massive computer (known as The Afternet), set up by the all-knowing One in anticipation of Peter’s throwing in the towel, starts operating. A blink of an eye later, in terms of eternity, and the Afternet goes down. A pair of operators is needed. God selects one: Geoffrey, a 7^th century Cumbrian turnip puller. The Devil picks the other: Marcel, a 17^th century French libertine. Unsurprisingly, they fail to un-crash the Afternet, so a couple of computer geek unfortunates are plucked untimely from this vale of tears and Geoffrey and Marcel think they’re sorted. Of course they’re not. Empringham’s tale is a bizarre conjunction of jumbled eras, outlandish people and weird deities – readers need to keep their wits about them - all told in vivid and startling language. In many places it is laugh out loud funny and a comparison with The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy springs to mind. The Afternet is a great intro to e books, kindle and Peter Empringham.