From the "wickedly talented" (Boston Globe) and "darkly funny" (New York Times Book Review) Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife is a tour de force. It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called "the Age of F***ed Up Shit." A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America. Medical care is supplied by open-source nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can be hacked. Abby Fogg is a film archivist with a niggling feeling that her life is not really her own. She may be right. Al Skinner is a former mercenary for the Boeing Army, who's been dragging his war baggage behind him for nearly a century. Woo-jin Kan is a virtuoso dishwasher with the Hotel and Restaurant Management Olympics medals to prove it. Over them all hovers a mysterious man named Dirk Bickle, who sends all these characters to a full-scale replica of Manhattan under construction in Puget Sound. An ambitious novel that writes large the hopes and anxieties of our time-climate change, social strife, the depersonalization of the digital age-Blueprints of the Afterlife will establish Ryan Boudinot as an exceptional novelist of great daring.;Cover; BLUEPRINTS OF THE AFTERLIFE; Also by Ryan Boudinot; Title Page; Copyright 2012 by Ryan Boudinot; Dedication; BLUEPRINTS OF THE AFTERLIFE; Woo-Jin; Q&A with Liuke Piper, Part 1; Abby Fogg; Q&A with Luker Piper, Part 2; Skinner; Q&A with Luker Piper, Part 3; Neethan F. Jordan; Woo-Jin and Abby; Q&A with Luker Piper, Part 4; Skinner; Q&A with Luker Piper, Part 5; Neethan; Abby; Q&A with Luker Piper, Part 6; Skinner; Q&A with Luker Piper, Part 7; New York Alki; Q&A with Luker Piper, Part 8; New York Alki; Q&A with Luker Piper, Part 9; Acknowledgments