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LoveStar a Novel

LoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life.

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  • "LoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life."@en
  • "Der internationale Konzern LoveStar hat Island in den Mittelpunkt der Welt gerückt, den Tod vermarktet, die Liebe organisiert und im Norden Islands den gigantischsten Freizeitpark errichtet, den es je gab. LoveStar ist es gelungen, die Träume der Menschen zu entschlüsseln, die sich vor allem um die Liebe und den Tod drehen. Doch nicht alle lassen sich gleichschalten - ein junges Paar schafft es, seine ganz individuelle Liebe zu retten. Bis ein grössenwahnsinniger Mitarbeiter des Konzerns eine noch nie da gewesene Begräbniszeremonie organisiert, das "Millionensternefestival", bei dem eine Million Tote ins All geschossen werden - um dann gleichzeitig weltweit als Sternschnuppen vom Himmel zu fallen. So ganz geht dieser Plan leider nicht auf."
  • "In a device-free world dominated by wave-transmitted consumerism where people are controlled by technological trends, blissfully happy young lovers Indridi and Sigrid are declared to have a scientifically invalid relationship and are forced to go to extreme lengths to prove their love."
  • "LoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life. Cordless modern men and women are paid to howl advertisements at unsuspecting passers-by, REGRET machines eliminate doubt over roads not taken, soul mates are identified and brought together (while existing, unscientifically validated relationships are driven remorselessly asunder), and rocketing the dead into the sky becomes both a status symbol and a beautiful, cathartic show for those left behind. Indridi and Sigrid, two blissfully happy young lovers, have their perfect worlds threatened (along with Indridi's sanity) when they are "calculated apart" and are forced to go to extreme lengths to prove their love. Their journey ultimately puts them on a collision course with LoveStar, who is on his own mission to find what might become the last idea in the world. Steeped in influences ranging from Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, and Kurt Vonnegut to George Orwell, Douglas Adams, and Monty Python, Andri Snaer Magnason has created a surreal yet uncomfortably familiar world, where the honey embrace of love does its utmost to survive amid relentless and overpowering controls."@en

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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"

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  • "LoveStar : Roman"
  • "LoveStar a Novel"@en
  • "Lovestar a novel"@en
  • "Lovestar : a novel"
  • "LoveStar : roman"
  • "LoveStar (Roman)"
  • "LoveStar"
  • "Lovestar"@hu
  • "Lovestar"
  • "LoveStar Roman"

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