The Afternet: April 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.

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.