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In the year 2063, on the edge of the Crater formerly known as Montr�al, a middle-aged man and his ex�s daughter search for a cult hero: the leader of a short-lived band named after a forgotten work of poetry and known to fans through a forgotten work of music criticism. In this exuberantly plotted verse novel, Guriel follows an obsessive cult-following through the twenty-first century. Some things change (there�s metamorphic smart print for music mags; the Web is called the �Zuck�). Some things don�t (poetry readings are still, mostly, terrible). But the characters, including a robot butler who stands with Ishiguro�s Stevens as one of the great literary domestics, are unforgettable. Splicing William Gibson with Roberto Bola�o, Pale Fire with Thomas Pynchon, Forgotten Work is a time-tripping work of speculative fiction. It�s a love story about fandom, an ode to music snobs, a satire on the human need to value the possible over the actual�and a verse novel of Nabokovian virtuosity.