
Necropolis
Night Shade Books · Print & ebook · October 1, 2011
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- Who it’s for
- A backward-aging New York gives this murder mystery an eerie, noir-tinged atmosphere.
- Themes
- Resurrection and reverse aging, Nostalgia, Alienation and loss
- Genres
- Sci-Fi Crime, Cyberpunk, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
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In a world where death is a thing of the past, how far would you go to solve your own murder? NYPD detective Paul Donner and his wife Elise were killed in a hold-up gone wrong. Fifty years later, Donner is back: revived courtesy of the Shift.
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Supposedly the unintended side-effect of a botched biological terrorist attack and carried by a ubiquitous retrovirus, the Shift jump-starts dead DNA and throws the life cycle into reverse, so reborns like Donner must cope with the fact that they are not only slowly youthing toward a new childhood, but have become New York's most hated minority. With New York quarantined beneath a geodesic blister, government and basic services have been outsourced by a private security corporation named Surazal. Reborns and infected norms alike struggle in a counterclockwise world, where everybody gets younger, you can see Elvis every night at Radio City Music Hall, and nobody has any hope of ever seeing the outside world. Lost in a sea of nostalgia, NYC becomes an inwardly focused schizophrenic culture of alienation and loss. In this backwards-looking culture where only some of the dead have returned, Donner is haunted by revivers guilt, and becomes obsessed with finding out who killed him and his non-returning wife. Little does he know, strange forces have already begun tracking him. Donner isn't the only one obsessed with the past.
Noir in Reverse
A backward-aging New York gives this murder mystery an eerie, noir-tinged atmosphere.
Come here for
- Crime-noir intrigue in a city where the dead return and everyone grows younger
Expect
- A sealed-off New York steeped in nostalgia, alienation, and uneasy afterlife logic
Where it sits
| Cyberpunk | 67% |
|---|---|
| Sci-Fi Crime | 50% |
| Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic | 24% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hard-Boiled Mystery
- Time Travel Fiction
- Suspense
- Authors
- Michael Dempsey
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books
- Published
- October 1, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Resurrection and reverse aging · Nostalgia · Alienation and loss
- Reading lane
- Hard-Boiled Mystery