Against the Day
#5390 of 8,085 books · #834 in Historical Fiction
Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2007).
A tale spanning the years between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I features characters who are caught up in such events as the labor troubles of Colorado, the Mexican revolution, and the heyday of silent-movie Hollywood.
- Publisher
- Penguin Press HC
- ISBN-13
- 9781400153701
- Topics
- Labor struggles and class conflictHistorical upheaval and revolutionTechnology and modernity
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(2007)
Other awarded books from Thomas Pynchon
- Gravity's Rainbow (1973)1 win · 15 score
- Bleeding Edge (2013)0 wins · 4 score
- V. (2012)0 wins · 4 score
If you liked Against the Day, you could also like these
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
1 win · 15 score
Bleeding Edge
Thomas Pynchon
0 wins · 4 score
V.
Thomas Pynchon
0 wins · 4 score
The World at the End of Time
Frederik Pohl
0 wins · 2 score
In the Country of the Blind
Michael F. Flynn
1 win · 7 score
Any Day Now
Terry Bisson
0 wins · 2 score
Dayworld
Philip José Farmer
0 wins · 2 score
A Day for Damnation
David Gerrold
0 wins · 2 score
John Henry Days
Colson Whitehead
1 win · 13 score
Expiration Date
Tim Powers
0 wins · 6 score
Half the Day is Night
Maureen F. McHugh
0 wins · 2 score
In War Times
Kathleen Ann Goonan
0 wins · 2 score
Ancients of Days
Paul J. McAuley
0 wins · 2 score
Past Master
R. A. Lafferty
0 wins · 6 score
A Matter of Time
Glen Cook
0 wins · 2 score
