Notes from the Internet Apocalypse

Notes from the Internet Apocalypse by Wayne Gladstone
216 Pages

The Internet is gone, suddenly and completely.  Society is lost and trying to adapt in a world where information is no longer just a click away.   Cats are forced to do tricks over and over because there is no youtube.  Pornography has a renaissance on Times Square and one psychic librarian has begun answering reference questions for a fee.   The main character Gladstone has teamed up with two friends to find the internet again and is soon the center of controversy when he is identified as the Internet Messiah and people turn to him as either the savior of the internet or the man that will return the scourge of life.

There is lots of humor about how people cope with the loss of something that is a part of their daily lives but it does begin to wear thin about 2/3's into the book.  The underlying theme of the satire is how people have depended upon the shallow interface of the internet to fill in a lack of interpersonal relationships and after it is gone, they are at sea as how to interact with the world again.