Afterlight
Priya Nadesan
- Status
- Available
- Territories
- Worldwide
- Chain of title
- Independently held — verified
- Rights available
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Afterlight
Priya Nadesan
The last analog radio station on earth begins broadcasting from the future. A night engineer has to decide whether to answer.
- Published
- 2023
- Length
- 298 pages
- ISBN
- 978-1-998201-02-1
- Source format
- Novel
- Scale
- Contained
- Audience
- Adult
- Setting
- High-desert radio station, American Southwest
- Territories
- Worldwide
- Chain of title
- Independently held — verified
Adaptation
A contained limited series that can reopen: one engineer, one transmitter, one overnight shift that starts arriving already recorded. Sound is the special effect. The future is a frequency you almost tune past.
Synopsis
Station K-LAST is a relic: a desert transmitter kept alive by a single engineer and a grant no one remembers signing. Then the overnight tape starts arriving already recorded — weather for storms that have not happened, obituaries for people still asleep. Afterlight is speculative fiction with the temperature of a late-night call-in show. Nadesan writes grief as a frequency, and the future as something you can almost tune past.
Comparable films / series
The Vast of Night; Midnight Mass; Arrival
Comparable books
Station Eleven; Sea of Tranquility; The Night Circus
Awards, sales & credentials
Independently published 2023. Festival readings in Dublin and London. No prior screen option.
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- Film & television
- Audio
- Interactive
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