Nebula Award 2016, Hugo Award nominee 2017.
From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world - and the beginning of our future
Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alarm one's peers and families.
But now they're both adults, living in the hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart around them. Laurence is an engineering genius who's working with a group that aims to avert catastrophic breakdown through technological intervention. Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the world's magically gifted, and works with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the world's every-growing ailments. Little do they realize that something bigger than either of them, something begun years ago in their youth, is determined to bring them together - to either save the world, or plunge it into a new dark ages.
A deeply magical, darkly funny examination of life, love, and the apocalypse.
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I wish someone would have told me that the cover text review of New York Times "As hopeful as it is hilarious" was probably meant as sarcasm, not as an actual compliment, I would have thought twice before picking this up...
I just really didn't like most of the book. I guess the plot was okayish, but over 400 pages the unfairness and antagonism of the main characters with practically breadcrumbs of slightly positive moments was just too much to handle for me.
