Book cover for Splendid Chaos by John Shirley

Splendid Chaos

2021 Released
245 Pages
5-6 Hours
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Night Shade BooksISBN 9781633553590

Zero is a young film maker who believes his whole life and career are mapped out before him. That is, until the night he and his friends walk into a rock club ... and are caught in a dazzling trap that spans worlds.

They are dropped onto a dreamlike planet whose surrealistic beauty cannot hide its grotesque reality. Fool's Hope - a world, so stunningly bizarre, nightmares are irrelevant. Here, abductees - both human and alien - are pitted against a neverending succession of hellish parasites, carnivores, shape-changers, and symbiotes.

Yet the greatest enemy of all could be human. When former professor Harmon Fiskle is transformed by the Current - a roving mutagenic force - he is freed to pursue his megalomaniacal nature. He advocates a depraved policy of social Darwinism, and forges a grotesque alliance of Twists: men and women who have sacrificed their own humanity to become monstrous mutations of their former selves.

With an entire world at stake, only Zero can solve the mystery of Fool's Hope ... if it isn't already too late.

John Shirley

John Shirley has written novels, short stories, as well as collaborating on lyrics for the band Blue Oyster Cult, and the screenplay for the cult classic film The Crow. Amoung his many novels are the Westerns Wyatt in Wichita, and the Sundown Riders series coauthored with Ralph Compton. He currently lives in Vancouver, Washington, with his wife. You can learn more at www.john-shirley.com
 

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