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Three Days in April, by Edward Ashton
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Anders Jensen is having a bad month. His roommate is a data thief, his girlfriend picks fights in bars, and his best friend is a cyborg…and a lousy tipper. When everything is spiraling out of control, though, maybe those are exactly the kind of friends you need.
In a world divided between the genetically engineered elite and the unmodified masses, Anders is an anomaly: engineered, but still broke and living next to a crack house. All he wants is to land a tenure-track faculty position, and maybe meet someone who's not technically a criminal—but when a nightmare plague rips through Hagerstown, Anders finds himself dodging kinetic energy weapons and government assassins as Baltimore slips into chaos. His friends aren't as helpless as they seem, though, and his girlfriend's street-magician brother-in-law might be a pretentious hipster—or might hold the secret to saving them all.
Frenetic and audacious, Three Days in April is a speculative thriller that raises an important question: once humanity goes down the rabbit hole, can it ever find its way back?
Three Days in April, by Edward Ashton- Amazon Sales Rank: #423559 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-13
- Released on: 2015-10-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .96" w x 4.19" l, .40 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 384 pages
About the Author
Edward Ashton lives with his adorably mopey dog, his inordinately patient wife, and three beautiful but terrifying daughters in Rochester, New York, where he studies new cancer therapies by day, and writes about the awful things his research may lead to by night. His short fiction has appeared in dozens of venues, ranging from Louisiana Literature to Daily Science Fiction. Three Days in April is his first novel.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Absolutely riveting! By Rhiannon I was hooked before I finished the first chapter and could hardly put the "Three Days in April" down. I had to know how Anders, a struggling academic with a few genetic modifications, managed to get through his day hungover after a blind date. The descriptions of daily life in the context of futuristic technology kept me turning the pages. I found the dialog vibrant and entertaining - Anders, Terry, Gary, etc. are those exciting friends that make normal life fun. I hope there is a sequel!Read this book if you want to be entertained while being challenged to think about our growing dependence on science and technology.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Fun Party where Anyone might be Killed By Tim Ward Three Days in April by Edward Ashton could be described as the book that brought its futuristic-drug giggles to the award ceremony. Meanwhile, chemicals in the air are planting tiny bombs inside everyone around them. Bombs that are likely to go off before anyone knows they're infected.Three Days in April introduces two of these characters right away, both modified with DNA splicing akin to what may result if Jurassic Park didn't have such a horrific ending to their plans. They're still people, though, and the author's ability to show us this in smooth strides alongside showing how their modifications make them far different than we could imagine fascinated me and kept me reading.Three Days in April is one of those rare books that engaged on so many levels that I read it from start to finish without losing any interest. His character cast is at times hilarious, often surprisingly smart, definitely human, but also something we've never seen. His plot mixes in the daily life of twenty-something hackers and their friends as a terrorist attack begins a holy war between those who are modified and those who aren't. He's done his homework on making this technological war appear plausible and lifelike, while also massaging our nerd sensors for what cool gadgets we may get in the future.This book is kind of like how a lazy gamer generation would like to learn about new technology, in a future society where you can get mods to become a Pretty or a Neanderthal, but in a story told for those who enjoy fart jokes and the fun you can have when responsibility doesn't get in the way.Thanks to HarperVoyager for letting me be a part of the Super Readers program and for this review copy. This will compete for top read of the year!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Hilarious, Brilliant, and Terrifying By Michele I will start by saying that I am not a sci-fi fan. I generally don’t even read books that aren’t literary classics. Now I will proceed to say that this book is a must-read. It’s simultaneously brilliant, hilarious, and terrifying. Ashton’s characters speak in clever, sarcastic dialogue that kept me smiling and laughing while I read about the tragedy at the core of the story (yes, it’s a bit uncomfortable to realize this) but his humor is that infectious and his writing is so smart that I did not want to put this down. His ability to weave a complex, intriguing story from multiple perspectives is admirable and daunting. However, what’s most impactful is Ashton’s ability to take the utopian advancements we see developing, at an exponential rate, in our everyday lives, and unravel them into a dystopian fiction that doesn’t seem all that far off from possibility. My experience was similar to the feeling I got when I read A Clockwork Orange and realized that I had slowly but surely learned and began to think in terms of Nadsat, the cult-language spoken by the characters throughout the book. As I laughed at the witty dialogue, and was entertained by the tragic story of Hagerstown, Ashton was sprinkling in aspects of this “fictitious” culture that began to make me uncomfortable: genetic mouse-splicing and “pretty” modifications, a panopticon run by National Security, people drinking BrainBump to increase serotonin levels, and interactive house avatars that controlled the lights, the locks, and more….that did not seem completely implausible.Sure, we are not quite living in a “Silico-American” world where people have oculars showing us chat room screens and news feeds right in our eyes, the government doesn’t abolish our homes with a two-minute warning, and so far we don’t have rogue avatars controlling our communication with the outside world, but the idea of a generation of humans that are spliced with chosen modifications to improve their looks, their height, their speed, do not seem as far off of a concept (hmmm, I’m thinking CRSPR).Three Days in April isn’t just a techno-thriller or speculative fiction. Although it is extraordinarily entertaining, and Ashton is an extremely talented writer with a flair for humor and story-telling that is difficult to accomplish, let alone master, as he does, but if you also want to read something about human nature, evolution, innovation and dystopia, if you want to read something intelligent, something that shows a future failing against the tried and true nature of humans’ resistance to accept those who differ from themselves, if you want to read a modern, Braver, Newer World, read this.
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