In addition, many reviewers have mentionwed how ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW bears a huge similarity to what happened with Superstorm Sandy, but in fact, the book was written long before SANDY hit NYC or Nat's conciousness. But when the book was getting ready to be publishesed, SANDY did hit NYC and Nat was able to tweak the text of the book here and there to update it before publication. So this is now appears in the book, which was written and added to the text very soon after SANDY hit and good: ''...The NY Stock Exchange closed for two days for the first time since 1888, schools shut down for a week and it was more than two weeks before subway service was fully restored, The lessons of Sandy were soon forgotten, however, even though conditions continued to deterioate in the years following the storm [circa 2013 -2100].'' [PAGE 123] Alan K. Audi - Lawyer Profile University Yale University, B.A. Law School Georgetown University, J.D. Admitted to the BAR in 2006 The inspiration for Nat's novel was a 2007 conversation Nat had with Alan Audi, class of 2002, at Yale. as explained in the YouTube video. COOL. ''Continua'' was founded in September when a group of six friends— among them Alan Audi, DC '02, mentioned by Nat above, —obtained funding from the Calhoun College Class of '59 Fund and the Program of Ethnicity, Race and Migration. re Though stacks of magazines were quietly left in front of dining halls, and there was no publicity beyond word of mouth, the inaugural issue of ''Continua'', a student magazine about "politics, culture and all things radical," has already ruffled a few feathers... This graph is also in the book and it is vital in this kind of cli fi novel, not one reviewer has cited this yet: ''In late October 2012, Hurricane Sandy, though only a Category 1 storm, brought a near 14 foot tide to Battery Park, flooded sections of lower Manhattan and left 850,001 people without electricity. Staten Island and south Queens suffered the greatest damage; the Rockaway Beach boardwalk was stripped of its piers. ..'' PAge 123 The song BY THE FLAMING LIPS continues but not in Rich's novel: ''He explained how The end will come, you and me were never meant To be part of the future, All we have is now, All we've ever had was now All we have is now All we'll ever have is now I noticed that he had a watch and hat That looked familiar He was me, from a dimension torn free Of the future "We're not gonna make it" He explained how The end will come, you and me were never meant To be part of the future, All we have is now... Reply · quoted in Nathaniel Rich's novel ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW on page 127 "Excuse me?" "Hold." The hold music came on the line. It was a pop song frm the around the turn of the century [by THE FLAMING LIPS, circa late 1990s], set against piano chords: ''As logic stands you couldn't meet a man Who's from the future But logic broke as he appeared he spoke About the Future "We're not gonna make it" ...'' these lyrics are in NAthaniel RIch's new cli fi novel ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW page 127....The Flaming Lips – All We Have Is Now "Excuse me?" "Hold." The hold music came on the line. It was a pop song frm the around the turn of the century [by THE FLAMING LIPS, circa late 1990s], set against piano chords: ''As logic stands you couldn't meet a man Who's from the future But logic broke as he appeared he spoke About the Future "We're not gonna make it" ...''
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