Posted
8:19 pm
by Ken
Coming soon: US paperback of The Night Sessions
Via
i09, I see that the forthcoming
Pyr edition of
The Night Sessions is
now available for pre-order. The cover, by Stephan Martiniere, is just
ace - I've seen it before, of course, as editor
Lou Anders took me through various stages of the design process, but this happens to be the first time I've seen it walking the mean streets by itself.
The book itself is a near-future police procedural, featuring atheist detectives, presbyterian terrorists, creationist science-park animatronic hominids, a gothic lolita secret policeman, and Calvinist robots in space.
Or, as the publisher more soberly
puts it:
A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it’s a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It’s been a long time since anyone saw anything like this. Terrorism is history.
After the Middle East wars and the rising sea levels, after Armageddon and the Flood, came the Great Rejection. The first Enlightenment separated church from state. The Second Enlightenment has separated religion from politics. In this enlightened age there’s no persecution, but the millions who still believe and worship are a marginal and mistrusted minority. Now someone is killing them.
At first, suspicion falls on atheists more militant than the secular authorities. But when the target list expands to include the godless, it becomes evident that something very old has risen from the ashes. Old and very, very dangerous. . .
Labels: coming attractions, self-promotion, skiffy, writing
Now I'm going to have to buy another copy just for the brilliant cover art.
This is my favorite of your stand-alone novels.
Very glad that it'll be even more accessible in these parts. My loaner copy is getting a little tired. Now I can tell would be borrowers to go buy their own. ',:^D
By M. Huw Evans, at Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:54:00 pm