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Product details
- ISBN 9781399747356
- Dimensions: 156 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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From the writer and director of I Saw the TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, starring Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder
How far would you go to bring back the only person who ever felt like home?
'A riot in novel form by an author with an utterly singular, original vision. Public Access Afterworld will leave you breathless and desperate for a sequel'
KALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of Time
'Jane Schoenbrun has the literary voice I've been famished for. Public Access Afterworld gave me a vertiginous thrill I haven't encountered since David Mitchell'
TORREY PETERS, author of Stag Dance and Detransition, Baby
'I stayed up all night binge-reading . . . Adroitly beautiful, funny, and scathing'
SENLINYU, author of Alchemised
On 12th June 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin's basement to watch TV's analogue-to-digital transition. Beneath the static that follows, Erin catches a glimpse of a mysterious broadcast from a TV network called 'Public Access Afterworld'. Soon after that, she vanishes - changing the trajectory of David's life forever.
Fourteen years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill's bleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing an endless stream of horrific videos. But gradually a pattern emerges from the ocean of digital violence in the form of a young streamer, Jules, calling out the same words: Public Access Afterworld.
When Bethany ignores the guidance of her corporate overseers and sets out to rescue Jules, she begins an epic journey that sweeps from rural Texas to the heart of American darkness in 1940s Los Alamos - and all the way back to that basement where David and Erin first encountered a world at the edges of reality itself.
'Utterly hypnotic - once you start reading Public Access Afterworld, you won't stop'
LEV GROSSMAN, author of The Magicians
'Thrilling, heart-wrenching, hilarious, visionary, and so damned smart, this novel is a major work from a major talent'
PAUL TREMBLAY, author of A Head Full of Ghosts
'Constantly yanking the magical carpet out from under the reader's feet, this epic quest for the source of all television is psychedelic horror of the first order'
GRADY HENDRIX, author of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Praise for I Saw the TV Glow, written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun
'Jane Schoenbrun was born to make cult classics' GQ
'An atmosphere so intoxicating, it feels less like the creation of a movie and more that of an entire world' GUARDIAN
'What's most effective, and staggering, is Schoenbrun's storytelling' NEW YORK TIMES
How far would you go to bring back the only person who ever felt like home?
'A riot in novel form by an author with an utterly singular, original vision. Public Access Afterworld will leave you breathless and desperate for a sequel'
KALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of Time
'Jane Schoenbrun has the literary voice I've been famished for. Public Access Afterworld gave me a vertiginous thrill I haven't encountered since David Mitchell'
TORREY PETERS, author of Stag Dance and Detransition, Baby
'I stayed up all night binge-reading . . . Adroitly beautiful, funny, and scathing'
SENLINYU, author of Alchemised
On 12th June 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin's basement to watch TV's analogue-to-digital transition. Beneath the static that follows, Erin catches a glimpse of a mysterious broadcast from a TV network called 'Public Access Afterworld'. Soon after that, she vanishes - changing the trajectory of David's life forever.
Fourteen years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill's bleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing an endless stream of horrific videos. But gradually a pattern emerges from the ocean of digital violence in the form of a young streamer, Jules, calling out the same words: Public Access Afterworld.
When Bethany ignores the guidance of her corporate overseers and sets out to rescue Jules, she begins an epic journey that sweeps from rural Texas to the heart of American darkness in 1940s Los Alamos - and all the way back to that basement where David and Erin first encountered a world at the edges of reality itself.
'Utterly hypnotic - once you start reading Public Access Afterworld, you won't stop'
LEV GROSSMAN, author of The Magicians
'Thrilling, heart-wrenching, hilarious, visionary, and so damned smart, this novel is a major work from a major talent'
PAUL TREMBLAY, author of A Head Full of Ghosts
'Constantly yanking the magical carpet out from under the reader's feet, this epic quest for the source of all television is psychedelic horror of the first order'
GRADY HENDRIX, author of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Praise for I Saw the TV Glow, written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun
'Jane Schoenbrun was born to make cult classics' GQ
'An atmosphere so intoxicating, it feels less like the creation of a movie and more that of an entire world' GUARDIAN
'What's most effective, and staggering, is Schoenbrun's storytelling' NEW YORK TIMES
Jane Schoenbrun is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. Their films include I Saw the TV Glow and We're All Going to the World's Fair. Their newest film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, starring Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder, will release in 2026. Public Access Afterworld is their first novel.
