“Me and death. Separated at birth.”

Rant is a gripping novel by Chuck Palahniuk, pitting an oppressed anti-hero against the more privileged side of society set in a dystopian future.

Rant is told in the form of an oral biography. When the story begins, the reader discovers that the protagonist, Buster “Rant” Casey, is already deceased. Throughout the book, various people discuss their memories of Rant and the world he lived in, presenting stories in an occasionally conflicting timeline.

Topics discussed in the novel are epidemics, time travel, virtual reality, alternate timelines, social diversity, the pursuit and implications of immortality and urban legends.

This novel has everything a science fiction junkie could ask for. It will blow your mind. It will implode within your skull; all while you’re being thrown around on a time-traveling roller coaster of plot twists and jaw-dropping revelations. Read it more than once.

Palahniuk is known for writing other books such as Choke and Fight Club, the latter being adapted into a film with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in 1999.