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Revision as of 15:45, 7 January 2022

Tom Sweterlitsch
Born (1977-10-21) October 21, 1977 (age 46)
Iowa, United States
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
GenreScience fiction

Tom Sweterlitsch (born 1977)[1] is an American writer, known best for the time traveling novel The Gone World[2][3] and for a bleak cyperpunk novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow[4].

In Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Tom Sweterlitsch adresses the cultural shift of the recent years in a dystopian version of the United States. Facing depression, the main protagonist spend too much time in virtual reality, mourning his pregnant wife, dead in a nuclear terrorist attack that destroyed Pittsburgh[5]. He also adresses the problems raised by highly personalized advertising[6][7].


He has a Master’s Degree in Literary and Cultural Theory from Carnegie Mellon and worked for twelve years at the Carnegie Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and daughter[8].

Bibliography

Novels and novellas

  • The Gone World (2018)
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2014)

Short Fictions

  • The Disposable Man (2012)
  • The Sandbox Singularity (2018)
  • Neuro-Dancer (2020)

Movie scripts

  • Rakka (2017), with Oats Studios.
  • Firebase (2017), with Oats Studios.
  • Zygote (2017), with Oats Studios.

References

  1. ^ "Tom Sweterlitsch". GoodReads. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  2. ^ Liptak, Andrew (2018-03-03). "The Gone World is a brilliant, complicated novel about the consequences of time travel". The Verge. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  3. ^ "A Conversation With Tom Sweterlitsch About "The Gone World"". MysteryTribune. 2018-01-05. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  4. ^ Schnelbach, Leah (2014-07-15). "Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Apocalypse in the Steel City". Tor.com. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  5. ^ Humann, Heather Duerre (2019-08-13). "Reconstructing reality in Tomorrow and Tomorrow". Reality Simulation in Science Fiction Literature, Film and Television. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. pp. 66–75. ISBN 978-1-4766-7753-8.
  6. ^ Rieder, Gernot; Völker, Thomas (2020). "Datafictions: or how measurements and predictive analytics rule imagined future worlds". Journal of Science Communication. 19 (1): –02. doi:10.22323/2.19010202.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  7. ^ Vint, Sherryl (2015). "Introduction to 'the futures industry'" (PDF). Paradoxa. 27 (1): 7–19.
  8. ^ O'Driscoll, Bill (2018-01-31). "Local author Tom Sweterlitsch on his second science-fiction novel — and his Hollywood connections". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 2022-01-07.