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Novels by Jack Womack (Study Guide): Going, Going, Gone, Elvissey, Terraplane, Random Acts of Senseless Violence

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Going, Going, Gone, Elvissey, Terraplane, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Let's Put the Future B...
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Novels by Jack Womack (Study Guide): Going, Going, Gone, Elvissey, Terraplane, Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Going, Going, Gone, Elvissey, Terraplane, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Let's Put the Future Behind Us, Ambient. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Going, Going, Gone is a 2000 alternate history novel by Jack Womack. As the sixth and final installment of his acclaimed Dryco series, the novel was the subject of much anticipation and speculation prior to its release, and critically well-received. Set in 1968 New York in an alternate universe to the Dryco universe of the previous five iterations of the series, Going, Going, Gone nevertheless disposes of several of the series' characters in its closing chapters. Its protagonist is Walter Bullitt, an egocentric expert in psychoactive substances who freelances for various branches of the United States government spy apparatus. Though he passes for white, Bullitt is in fact of African-American descent in a world where almost all full-blooded members of that race died sometime in the early twentieth century in an apparently engineered plague and all black music is banned. Walter becomes subject to increasingly strange experiences, hearing voices and seeing ghosts from a parallel New York which is blending into his one. Walter is taken to this alternative New York which has been flooded and moved north, populated by black people and an analogue of television absent from his world. The novel ends with the two epistemic worlds converging into a New York which is, in the words of critic Paul Dukes a "morally better place than either of the two which composed it". Going, Going, Gone was well-received critically. Publishers Weekly called it an "intriguing, clever novel", with the potential for crossover appeal as well as for satisfying fans of the series. Biopunk author and reviewer Paul Di Filippo hailed

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