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. This is the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. 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? At once an all-too-plausible literary thriller, an unexpected love story, and a philosophically searching inquiry into the nature of fear, Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow poses the ultimate questions of imagination and civilization. The future is not quite what it used to be.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Tantor Media, INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9781452663111
eBay Product ID (ePID)
180935892
Product Key Features
Book Title
Odds Against Tomorrow
Author
Nathaniel Rich
Format
Audio CD
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2013
Run Time
616 Mins
Narrator
Kirby Heyborne
Dimensions
Item Height
190mm
Item Width
135mm
Item Weight
72g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Nathaniel Rich
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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