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Summary: "Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you. There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: Foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about geoengineering and smart cities and ways to evade Our Coming Doom; strategic forecasters are spook futurists, who think about geopolitical upheaval and drone warfare and ways to prepare clients for Our Coming Doom. The former are paid by nonprofits and charities, the latter by global security groups and corporate think tanks. For both types, if you're good at it, and you spend your days and nights doing it, then it's something you can't do for long. Depression sets in. Mental illness festers. And if the abyss gaze takes hold there's only one place to recover: Normal Head, in the wilds of Oregon, within the secure perimeter of an experimental forest..."--

Item details

ISBN: 9780374534974
ISBN: 0374534977
ISBN: 9780374712631
Physical Description: print
148 pages ; 19 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

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FICTION Literary
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Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

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