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|date=August 2014

|website=http://darylgregory.com/

~~|video=~~|summary=Take two pills a day, preferably with food, and you will receive a direct line to God. Lyda Rose has done just this, but seeing God is fine and dandy, until it stops. What happens once this omnipresence leaves you? Action -packed and darkly amusing find out what happens after the party has ended.

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Gregory should also be praised for creating a vibrant and viable future. Smart Drugs have become the norm, illegal in most cases, but rife on the streets. This is fifteen or so years in the future so you can see our present in the text, but small touches and asides really flesh out the year 2031. Genetically engineered miniature cattle for home farms, pens that are also smart computers etc. are seamlessly weaved into the narrative to give added flavour to proceedings.

However, it is perhaps Gregory's despondent and cynical tone that made ''Afterparty'' stand out most. It would appear that the author does not have that much faith in people and if the masses were given access to heaven, they would only mess it up. This is a book that explores interesting concepts, but never forgets to excite or entertain. A darkly comic creation that questions why we are here and should we really care?

If this book appeals then you might also enjoy [[Generation A by Douglas Coupland]] and [[Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk]]. You might also enjoy [[Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory]].

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