- Blurb -
"It reads like Snow Crash had a dance-off with Gideon the Ninth, in a world where language isn' t a virus from outer space, it' s a goddamn alien invasion. " -Charles Stross Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of ' power morphemes' -unnaturally dense units of meaning that warp perception when skilfully pronounced. But Isobel' s reputation makes her the target of a strange resistance movement led by spellcasting anarchists, who may be the only thing stopping the cabal from toppling California over the edge of a terrible transformation, with forty million lives at stake. Time is short for Isobel to level up and choose a side-because the cabal has attracted much bigger and weirder enemies than the anarchist resistance, emerging from dark and vicious dimensions of reality and heading straight for planet Earth!
- Reviews -
"It reads like Snow Crash had a dance-off with Gideon the Ninth, in a world where language isn' t a virus from outer space, it' s a goddamn alien invasion. " --Charles Stross "Sparklepunk meets Snow Crash! One of those books that hits you with an amazing new idea every couple of pages, and it makes for a wild ride. " --Django Wexler A frenetic romp. . . a whole lot of fun. . . Glitter-bombed popcorn fiction at its finest. --Kirkus STARRED REVIEW A roller coaster of weird in this wildly entertaining gonzo adventure. . . Readers will love it as much for the outlandish ideas as for the narrative complexity and sense of fun. --Publishers WeeklyMore praise for Scotto Moore: "Scotto Moore understands a key truth about Ziggy Stardust: Rock and roll messiahs are really fucking scary. " --Kieron Gillen on Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You"Absolutely stunning. A fast-paced, psychedelic blur of music, tech, and things way beyond either. I picked it up, and it simply would not let me go until the final page was read. " --Ramez Naam on Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You"Moore writes with a playful jauntiness that buoys the growing darkness rather than undercutting it. His details about a certain subset of music nerds give the story some great texture. . . the ride is a fun one and the soundtrack is killer. " --Locus on Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You "A wickedly clever amalgam of science fiction, horror, and contemporary music that makes one reconsider whether Ziggy Stardust' s arrival here on Earth might not, in fact, be such a good thing. . . I could have read Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You in one sitting, but I stretched it over two nights because I couldn' t bear for it to end. . . Buy this book. " --Elizabeth Hand in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction on Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You"A lean, quick read with no fat. The clever, exciting story mixes weird fiction with an engaging and mysterious plot. " --Library Journal on Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You
- Author Bio -
SCOTTO MOORE is a Seattle playwright, whose works include the black comedy H. P. Lovecraft: Stand-up Comedian!, the sci-fi adventures Duel of the Linguist Mages and interlace [falling star], the gamer-centric romantic comedy Balconies, and the a cappella sci-fi musical, Silhouette. He is the creator of The Coffee Table, a comedic web series about a couple that discovers their new coffee table is an ancient alien artifact that sends their house shooting through the void. Moore is also behind the popular Lovecraft-themed meme generator, Things That Cannot Save You ("a catalog of your doom"), which spawned his novella, Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You.
- Full Details -
Status: | Active |
ISBN-13: | 9781250767721 |
Published: | 11 Jan 2022 |
Published In: | United States |
Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
Format: | Hardback |
Height: | 208mm |
Width: | 135mm |
Weight: | 300g |
Pages: | 448 |
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