Zero - Softcover

O'Leary, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798998618604

Publisher: Slowpoke Press, 2025

Synopsis

"If The Office and Black Mirror had a bleakly funny child, it might look like Zero." (Alex Norton, Likely Story)

"A witty, heartfelt take on time, technology, and love." (Jeyran Main, Review Tales)

Smith Babbitt is in the prime of his life: he’s only 25 years into his 89-year lifespan.

He knows this because of Timmy®, the mysterious app that can tell you with infallible accuracy how old you will be when you die. Smith still has 64 years to go. But lately he’s been in a rut, and his long lifespan is starting to feel like a sentence.

Possible salvation arrives in the form of Mavis Pead, a co-worker at Smith's demoralizing job. Smith is infatuated, despite the age difference: Mavis has just entered the last of her 43 years. She’s a “zero” – the most shunned demographic in society. When a careless act leads to their boss’s apparent death before his time, Smith and Mavis are thrown together in an intrigue that could call Timmy®’s infallibility into question. Mavis might not be so old after all – nor Smith so young.

A laugh-out-loud sendup of a technologically dependent culture, Zero is also a tender love story and a big-hearted reflection on the true meaning of age. A story that asks the question, What do we do with the time we’re given, whether we know how long we have...or we don’t?

About this title

About the Author

Jason O'Leary worked as a credited writer on the second season of the television series Loki, and co-wrote (with Kasra Farahani) the screenplay of the film Tilt, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and was distributed by The Orchard. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Tracey.

Edition details

• Publisher: Slowpoke Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798998618604
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 309