The A.R.C. with creator Tim Disney

BOOK EVENT

Date: October 29 | Time: 4-6 PM
Location: Astro-Zombies | Albuquerque, NM

Book description:

A lethal new virus is wreaking havoc across the globe, but this time hand sanitizer isn't going to fix it.

The A.R.C. begins at the Concordia Center in the heart of the Amazon, where a who's who of global elites from business, finance, fashion, entertainment, technology, and online activism have gathered for the Global Reinvestment For Tomorrow Conference (GRFT), promising to solve the problem of climate change once and for all. Very little problem-solving occurs before the GRFTers are infected with a lethal, highly contagious virus, dubbed Amazonian Recombinant Cytoneuropathy (A.R.C.).

The A.R.C. virus has peculiar and unfortunate characteristics: it is wildly contagious but undetectable in its dormant phase; it is 100% lethal; and the kicker is ... it's activated by lying. This proves deeply problematic for a world drowning in an ocean of lies and misinformation. The GRFTers board their private jets and spread the virus worldwide. Chaos ensues.

Praise for The A.R.C.

“Worst mistake was reading my brother’s book. Second worst was agreeing in advance to write a blurb for it. Whatever….”
— Abigail Disney, Filmmaker/Activist

“Obscene wealth plus a media not even remotely tethered to reality set in a jungle during the collapse of the entire livable climate would have been a ridiculous premise for a graphic novel 20 years ago. Now it feels it’s a headline coming in a few months.”
— Adam McKay, Writer/Director | Don’t look Up, The Big Short, Succession

“This is a book for our corrupted age, depicting a world led by those who have too much of everything except good sense. The vehicle for this funny, accurate, and scary satire is a cruise ship of followers and fools, headed for disaster while desperately attempting to have a blast. Whether to buy a ticket on this one-way cruise is up to each of us, and it is this possibility, the one of refusal, that might just save some portion of (our) humanity.”
— Viet Than Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Professor, and Critic

“Full of wit, satire, and brilliant anger focused right on the sources of climate change.”
— James Thornton, Environmentalist/Attorney/Author/Poet, Founding CEO of Client Earth

“Bitterly funny and staunchly anti-bullshit, a tale of truth, injustice, and a decidedly American Way.”
— Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification and Red Team Blues

“Punk Rock.”
— Dick Rude, creator of Repo Man

“Sharp-elbowed and witty, The A.R.C. is a kaleidoscope of images with a punch-to-the-gut prophecy for where the world is headed. It spares no one—and no ideology—as it turns a mirror on all of us as we hurtle over the cliff.”
— Moira Shourie, Journalist, Executive Director Zócalo Public Square