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Odds Against Tomorrow: A Novel (edició 2013)

de Nathaniel Rich

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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of an empty office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is employee number two. He is asked to calculate worst-case scenarios in the most intricate detail, and his schemes are sold to corporations to indemnify them against any future disasters. This is the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. As Mitchell immerses himself in the mathematics of catastrophe-ecological collapse, war games, natural disasters-he becomes obsessed by a culture's fears. Yet he also loses touch with his last connection to reality: Elsa Bruner, a friend with her own apocalyptic secret, who has started a commune in Maine. Then, just as Mitchell's predictions reach a nightmarish crescendo, an actual worst-case scenario overtakes Manhattan. Mitchell realizes he is uniquely prepared to profit. But at what cost? At once an all-too-plausible literary thriller, an unexpected love story, and a philosophically searching inquiry into the nature of fear, Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow poses the ultimate questions of imagination and civilization. The future is not quite what it used to be.… (més)
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Títol:Odds Against Tomorrow: A Novel
Autors:Nathaniel Rich
Informació:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2013), Edition: 0, Hardcover, 320 pages
Col·leccions:La teva biblioteca
Valoració:****
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Odds against Tomorrow de Nathaniel Rich

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    The Water Knife de Paolo Bacigalupi (sturlington)
    sturlington: Climate change, destroyed cities
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    Rivers de Michael Farris Smith (sturlington)
    sturlington: Visions of climate change
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Rather than head in a more Foundation-esque direction, which would have been awesome, themes veered towards Parable of the Sower meets The Year of the Flood. Pretty good read. ( )
  Teuthex | Jun 24, 2021 |
Picked it up cheap after some good notices. I think of these kinds of books as 'investments'. It might have been something terrific or the author might turn out something consequential in the future. For now... meh. ( )
  asxz | Mar 13, 2019 |
This is an interesting literary apocalyptic novel. The main character is a futurist who predicts disasters, and then an actual disaster of extreme magnitude hits New York City. I liked a lot of the ideas here, and the depiction of a flooded, deserted, post-apocalyptic New York, but I'm not sure the author did a good job of tying the themes together or coming to a satisfactory conclusion. Tepid recommendation. ( )
  sturlington | Jan 11, 2018 |
Middle of the road dystopian novel. Some new ideas about cause and survival. Can't let go of original idea even when it doesn't work. Not bad for an off-day read. ( )
  Richj | Dec 26, 2017 |
Gosh this was fun. It's been a while since I read a book in one sitting, and this was a great read. The writing is patchy in parts, but it's simply a fun story with creative characters and eerily familiar possibilities for anyone living in New York. Highly recommend for a casual read! ( )
  lincolnpan | Dec 31, 2014 |
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This literary novel by Nathaniel Rich offers a fascinating look at the ways we can cope with existential fears. The obvious, of course, are fight or flight; there are also responses of denial, mitigation, intellectualization and preparation. ... Rich’s writing is full and savory; he lets us into Mitchell’s head but doesn’t beat us over the head. He’s also got a way of making death and destruction sound thoroughly poetic, and whether this is a good or bad thing is not necessarily easy to decipher. When we quantify disaster, do we take some of the horror out of it, or is that something than cannot be diminished? There are fairly good odds that Mitchell himself would be on the side of the latter rather than the former.
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Nathaniel Richautor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
Kagan, AbbyDissenyadorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Munday, OliverIl·lustradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat

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New York makes one think about the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it. - Saul Bellow
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The way other people fantasize about surprise inheritances, first-glance love, and endless white emyreal pastures, Mitchell dreamed of an erupting supervolcano that would bury North America under a foot of hot ash.
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"There was no escaping math, after all. It was everywhere, especially in nature. You could go so as to say that match was nature." (p. 288)
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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of an empty office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is employee number two. He is asked to calculate worst-case scenarios in the most intricate detail, and his schemes are sold to corporations to indemnify them against any future disasters. This is the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. As Mitchell immerses himself in the mathematics of catastrophe-ecological collapse, war games, natural disasters-he becomes obsessed by a culture's fears. Yet he also loses touch with his last connection to reality: Elsa Bruner, a friend with her own apocalyptic secret, who has started a commune in Maine. Then, just as Mitchell's predictions reach a nightmarish crescendo, an actual worst-case scenario overtakes Manhattan. Mitchell realizes he is uniquely prepared to profit. But at what cost? At once an all-too-plausible literary thriller, an unexpected love story, and a philosophically searching inquiry into the nature of fear, Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow poses the ultimate questions of imagination and civilization. The future is not quite what it used to be.

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