"It's a tank full of warm water. What's the worst that could happen?"Seventeen-year-old Ollie is out with his best friends on a Saturday night, and they decide to try the "sensory deprivation" tanks at a store called Infinite Drift.But when he gets out again, the world seems vaguely… different. And it feels like he's being watched.Could he have somehow crossed over into a different dimension? Or is he going insane? After all, he's still distraught over the death of his little brother eight months earlier - an event no one knows he accidentally caused.Ollie tries to "reset" things by going back into the tank. This time, he emerges into a world where the Yellowstone "supervolcano" erupted four years earlier, almost wiping out human civilization, and one of his best friends is dead.But Ollie's little brother is alive again.Unfortunately, Ollie is being watched - by the robot-like creation of a cosmic monitoring station left in operation by a civilization that died out eons ago. And the being is ruthlessly trying to eliminate a strange "disruption" in the universe: Ollie!And so he has no choice but to go back into the tank yet again…Infinite Drift is the latest book from Brent Hartinger, the author of the LGBTQ teen classic Geography Club, but it's unlike anything he's ever written before: a page-turning mind-bender with a bonkers bisexual love triangle."A nonstop thrill ride filled with great twists and turns. Both exciting and thoughtful, the story asks us to consider what makes us who we are, even when the world all around us turns upside down."- Michael Thomas Ford, author of Suicide Notes and Every Star That Falls"This is a truly original story with an intriguing plot, vivid characters, and artful twists, delivered in sharp prose with great pacing. Brent Hartinger has created yet another winner!"- Matt McMann, USA Today bestselling author of the Monsterious series BRENT HARTINGER is a screenwriter and author of many books for teens and adults, including Project Pay Day, which he adapted as a 2021 feature film co-starring Superman's David Corenswet. Geography Club was also adapted as a feature film. BRENT HARTINGER is a novelist and screenwriter. His twelve novels include the 2003 gay teen classic GEOGRAPHY CLUB, which was adapted as a feature film in 2013.Nine of Brent's screenplays have been optioned for film, and four are currently in various stages of development, including PROJECT PAY DAY, a teen caper story based on his own novel, now in post-production for a 2020 release.Brent currently has no permanent address, and instead continuously travels the world with his husband, writer Michael Jensen. Their "digital nomad" journey, which has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and in Forbes, is documented on their website BrentandMichaelAreGoingPlaces.com.www.brenthartinger.com
