The Devil's Alphabet
A Novel
From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy.Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease-dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)-vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies.Paxton Abel Mart…
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- ISBN: 978-0-345-51695-4
- EAN: 9780345516954
- Produktnummer: 15717026
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'249 KB
Über den Autor
Daryl Gregory's first novel, Pandemonium, was published in 2008 and won the 2009 Crawford Award, given each year by critics and scholars of the fantasy field to an oustanding new fantasy writer whose first book was published the previous year. The book was also a finalist for The Shirley Jackson Award, the Locus Award, and the Mythopoeic Award for best fantasy adult novel. Gregory's short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's, several year's-best anthologies, and other fine venues. In 2005 Gregory recieved the Asimov's Readers' Award for the novelette Second Person, Present Tense. He lives with his wife and two children in State College, Pennsylvania, where he writes both fiction and web code.
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