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02276aam a2200313 i 4500 001 407928F0EAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210722010305 008 181224s2018 000 1 eng 010 $a bd19081026 020 $a 0345811259 020 $a 9780345811257 040 $d SKYRV $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Harmer, Liz. 245 14 $a The amateurs / $c Liz Harmer. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b Vintage Canada, $c 2019. 300 $a 327 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 20 cm. 505 0 $a The amateurs -- The professionals -- The travellers. 520 $a Allow us to introduce you to the newest product from PINA, the world's largest tech company. "Port" is a curiously irresistible device that offers the impossible: space-time travel mysteriously powered by nostalgia and longing. Step inside a Port and find yourself transported to wherever and whenever your heart desires: a bygone youth, a dreamed-of future, the fabled past. In the near-future world of Liz Harmer's extraordinary novel, Port becomes a phenomenon, but soon it is clear that many who pass through its portal won't be coming back--either unwilling to return or, more ominously, unable to do so. After a few short years, the population plummets. The grid goes down. Among those who remain is Marie, a thirty-something artist living in a small community of Port-resistors camping out in the abandoned mansions of a former steel town. As winter approaches the group considers heading south, but Marie clings to the hope that her long-lost lover will one day return to the spot where he disappeared. Meanwhile, PINA's corporate campus in California has become a cultish enclave of survivors. Brandon, the right-hand man to the mad genius who invented Port, decides to get out. He steals a car and drives north-east, where he hopes to find his missing mother. And there he meets Marie. 650 0 $a Dystopias $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Optimism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Survival $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Technological innovations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Time travel $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Science fiction 650 0 $a Apocalypse $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722061846.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=407928F0EAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search