Book cover for Orange City by Lee Matthew Goldberg
2021 Released
308 Pages
4-5 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Hardback Unavailable
Atmosphere PressISBN 9781636495910

Imagine a secret, hidden City that gives a second chance at life for those selected to come: felons, deformed outcasts, those on the fringe of the Outside World. Everyone gets a job, a place to live; but you are bound to the City forever. You can never leave.  


Its citizens are ruled by a monstrous figure called the "Man" who resembles a giant demented spider from the lifelike robotic limbs attached to his body. Everyone follows the Man blindly, working hard to make their Promised Land stronger, too scared to defy him and be discarded to the Empty Zones.   


After ten years as an advertising executive, Graham Weatherend receives an order to test a new client, Pow! Sodas. After one sip of the orange flavor, he becomes addicted, the sodas causing wild mood swings that finally wake him up to the prison he calls reality.


A dynamic mash-up of 1984 meets LOST, Orange City is a lurid, dystopian first book in a series that will continue with the explosive sequel Lemonworld. 




Lee Matthew Goldberg

Lee Matthew Goldberg is the Anthony, Lefty, and Prix du Polar nominated author of sixteen novels, including The Ancestor, The Mentor, and The Great Gimmelmans. His writing has also appeared as a contributor in CrimeReads, Pipeline Artists, LitHub, Chicago Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Jewish Book Council, The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, Mystery Tribune and others. He is also the publisher of Fringe Press.

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