LoveStar by Andri Snaer Magnason

LoveStar by Andri Snaer Magnason

2013 Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation of Excellence

"Orwell, Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams are felt on every page, though Magnason is never derivative. His satire and insightful social commentary sweeten the pot and the sheer wackiness of Magnason's oversized imagination is invigorating."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

LoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life. Cordless modern men and women are paid to howl advertisements at unsuspecting passers-by, REGRET machines eliminate doubt over roads not taken, soul mates are identified and brought together (while existing, unscientifically validated relationships are driven remorselessly asunder), and rocketing the dead into the sky becomes both a status symbol and a beautiful, cathartic show for those left behind.
 
Indridi and Sigrid, two blissfully happy young lovers, have their perfect worlds threatened (along with Indridi's sanity) when they are "calculated apart" and are forced to go to extreme lengths to prove their love. Their journey ultimately puts them on a collision course with LoveStar, who is on his own mission to find what might become the last idea in the world.
 
Steeped in influences ranging from Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, and Kurt Vonnegut to George Orwell, Douglas Adams, and Monty Python, Andri Snær Magnason has created a surreal yet uncomfortably familiar world, where the honey embrace of love does its utmost to survive amid relentless and overpowering controls.

Magnason's LoveStar was named Novel of the Year by Icelandic booksellers in 2002, and he got the DV Literary Award and an Icelandic Literary Prize nomination for it. It was also nominated for the Philip K. Award in 2013. The Dick Award is given to a person who has made His 2012 children's book The Tale of the Blue Planet, which has been published or performed in twenty-six countries, was the first to win the Icelandic Literary Prize, as well as the Janusz Korczak Honorary Award and the West Nordic Children's Book Prize.

Magnason was named the winner of the Kairos Prize in 2010.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781609804268
ISBN 10	1609804260
Title	LoveStar
Author	Andri Snaer Magnason
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Year published	2012-11-20
Number of pages	318
Prizes	Short-listed for Philip K. Dick Award 2013
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.