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You might enjoy Motel of the Mysteries.
>It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.
Should be this one. The 4 volume set with the red-brown paperback covers is the one I have.
Here's my beat up copies from 2003.
In the (wonderful) novel The Postmortal the cure for aging and most disease is discovered... right around now.
Civilization as we know it doesn't make it to 2100.
As far as the immortality story is important to your world building you should give it a read (Also because I love the book and recommend it whenever possible)
Yen Press Twitter Source, currently available for pre-order on Amazon, releasing on the 4th of October 2016. Contains all 17 volumes of the LN in this one release. ]Ookami to Koushinryou[
> "Just say it had some kind of ritual function."
Motel of the Mysteries is a really fun book kinda lampooning this.
Future archaeologists excavate a modern-day motel (well, a late-70s motel, given when this was written), and completely misinterpret almost everything about the place.
Makes you think about what we're getting completely wrong about the things we're finding from our ancestors.
Ever read Motel of the Mysteries? It the account of archaeologists in 4022 digging up a 1970s motel, and their “interpretations” of the objects they found (like a toilet seat being a shamanistic headdress worn during a ceremony, there the wearer would chat “Sanitized for your protection!”, and other such nonsense).
It fits exactly with what you’re saying here, and is a humorous look at the assumptions we make about the past, and the people who lived in it.
I'd keep them all intact. Hopefully by the end of the month we'll have more information.
According to Amazon the second print isn't shipping till November, so you'll have time to request a refund or cancel if you're stuck with the second edition.
If you're extremely lucky and hit the jackpot with 2-3 first editions, then consider selling at cost to those who missed out. I'm sure it will be easy to offload any additional copies.
Bioshock’s story is my favorite. I’ve replayed Bioshock 1 probably 4-5 times.
I love that they wrote a novel as well. Well worth the read if you’d like to see the story laid out from conception of Rapture through the building of the city, it’s hay day and downfall. BioShock: Rapture https://www.amazon.com/dp/0765367351/
>I even saw a copy trying to sell for 2000 on amazon if I recall.
There's even more ludicrous prices asked,... almost as if they just want to brag about having one and not actually wánting to sell.... ;)
Like this one...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316504017
I wonder if amazon is overselling this, I believe the 2,000 copies should have been long gone. There's even this:
> Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Nobody knows.. but here’s a MUST READ book where the author takes a good stab at a guess. Postmortal
One thing I really liked about the future with Postmortal humans is the idea of real life Trolls. They paint themselves green and wreak havoc on the immortals. Oh you just got the cure for mortality? Well they throw acid in your eyes and now you’re blind while you live for ever.
That’s just one example. Don’t wanna spoil it all. This book really is an easy and amazing read, highly advise.
The whole point is it's Yen Press, so it's only coming out in English. Book is available on Amazon for $150. Only 2000 copies are being printed so you may want to get on it before it sells out if you're interested.
Oooh. Someone even later than me! Target doesn't even list it anymore. Amazon and B&N seem to have the non-numbered edition still available for pre-order:
https://www.amazon.com/Spice-Anniversary-Collectors-Isuna-Hasekura/dp/0316469920/
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/spice-wolf-anniversary-collectors-edition-isuna-hasekura/1124656532
Amazon.co.uk still has "Numbered" editions going for sale if you don't mind waiting till November. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spice-Wolf-Anniversary-Collectors-Numbered/dp/0316504017
No clue as to whether or not they're actually numbered, might have to check with an Amazon rep.
Go reserve <em>Motel of the Mysteries</em> by David Macaulay from your local library. It's a tongue-in-cheek picture book about this very premise, it's a fast read, and it's really quite good. (4.5 stars on Amazon.)
I'm about 100 pages into a book called Musashi you might like. https://www.amazon.com/Musashi-Epic-Novel-Samurai-Era/dp/156836427X
You can get it on the german amazon for a little over €100. Link
Don't know if any are left, but I could still order it a few minutes ago.
For comparison's sake, here's the german amazon page. Release will be 4th of October as of this post.
I'm guessing there will be a 2nd release of that omnibus a bit later on? cause damn I need it.
edit: found this amazon page so I guess it's coming https://www.amazon.com/Spice-Anniversary-Collectors-Isuna-Hasekura/dp/0316469920/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475681031&sr=1-2&keywords=9780316504010
I have all the LN + the special summary.
Just wanted the summary, cause it's a nice collectable.
This one: https://www.amazon.com/Spice-Anniversary-Collectors-Isuna-Hasekura/dp/0316469920
And got it for free, cause Amazon was incompetent with shipping the thing from UK to GER
Have you read the novel that this image belongs to? It's absolutely my favorite video game based novel I've ever read. link to amazon page for it
You may like "Motel of the Mysteries" by David Macaulay. (http://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/0395284252) I haven't read it in a long time but the general premise is that a catastrophe occurs in the 80s burying the world and a few thousand years later archaeologists discover a preserved hotel (or something) and try to figure out what everything is and what it's used for.
The original is in Chinese and/or a light novel I believe. I think these are the translated versions
Surprisingly these aren't comics but I think those are out there too.
I liked your review. Unfortunately it's been so long since I've watched them that I can't give a meaningful comment.
I'll say this though. This is a great compilation of the story and well worth the read. Musashi by Yoshikawa Eiji.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/Musashi-Epic-Novel-Samurai-Era/dp/156836427X
You might like the Chinese classic, Romance of the Three Kingdoms
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Kingdoms-Chinese-Classics-4-Volumes/dp/7119005901
Apparently this is one of the better translations
there is a bioshock novel which attempts to explain alot of the backstory and motivations of the characters
BioShock : Rapture by John Shirley
https://www.amazon.com/BioShock-Rapture-John-Shirley/dp/0765367351
There is a satirical book called the Motel of the Mysteries that is written from the perspective of some future archaeologist who is excavating a cheap motel that was buried like the ruins of Pompeii. They try to assign some kind of deep significance to nearly everything they find. My favorite illustration is of a toilet seat that they thought was religious headgear of some kind.
I assume you mean the Foreign Language Press 4-volume box set. Yes, it does have illustrations. They are mass market sized paperbacks with thin pages similar to a Bible. Has all the footnotes and introduction as well.
That's why they mentioned both Wuxia and Xianxia
Wuxia is Martial Heroics, this includes super human feats but not much if any supernatural elements.
Xianxia is more overt higher fantasy with ghosts demons magic spells and all that.
An example of a hugely popular Xianxia that has been released in English is Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.