Nathaniel Rich - Odds Against Tomorrow | EPUB | 1.18 MiB
April 2nd 2013 | ISBN: 0374224242 | English | 304 pages
Author: Nathaniel Rich
A novel about fear of the future—and the future of fear
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.Â*This is the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming.
Â*Â*Â*Â* 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?
Â*Â*Â*Â* At once an all-too-plausible literary thriller, an unexpected love story, and a philosophically searching inquiry into the nature of fear, Nathaniel Rich’sÂ*Odds Against TomorrowÂ*poses the ultimate questions of imagination and civilization. The future is not quite what it used to be.
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