Matt Ruff

A Novel

Lovecraft Country

Bad monkeys

In the summer of 2009, Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi is plunged into a deadly conspiracy involving gangster Suddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, when a captured suicide bomber claims that the world in which they live is a mirage. 40,000 first printing.

The Mirage

The critically acclaimed author of Lovecraft Country returns with a thrilling and immersive virtual reality epic--part cyberthriller, part twisted romantic comedy--that transports you to a world where identity is fluid and nothing can be taken at face value. John Chu is a "sherpa"--a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor, and take you dragon-slaying in the Realms of Asgarth, hunting rogue starships in the Alpha Sector, or battling hordes of undead in the zombie apocalypse. Chu's new client, the pseudonymous Mr. Jones, claims to be a "wealthy, famous person" with powerful enemies, and he's offering a ridiculous amount of money for a comprehensive tour of the world of virtual-reality gaming. For Chu, this is a dream assignment, but as the tour gets underway, he begins to suspect that Mr. Jones is really North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, whose interest in VR gaming has more to do with power than entertainment. As if that weren't enough to deal with, Chu also has to worry about "Ms. Pang," who may or may not be an agent of the People's Republic of China, and his angry ex-girlfriend, Darla Jean Covington, who isn't the type to let an international intrigue get in the way of her own plans for revenge. What begins as a whirlwind online adventure soon spills over into the real world. Now Chu must use every trick and resource at his disposal to stay one step ahead--because in real life, there is no reset button.

88 Names

In the year 2023, as a crew of steelworkers works on the construction of a new Tower of Babel, the brainchild of billionaire Harry Gant, Harry's ex-wife Joan Fine, assisted by a resurrected Ayn Rand, sets out to solve the murder of a Wall Street takeover mogul. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

The Public Works Trilogy : a Novel

Sewer, Gas & Electric

88 Namen

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—"Bad Monkeys" for short. This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail's psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy—or playing a different game altogether. What follows is one of the most clever and gripping novels you'll ever read.

Bad Monkeys

Kraina Lovecrafta

Giovanni Bandini

Roman

Ich und die anderen

"Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel."--Publishers Weekly In this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of Lovecraft Country and explores the meaning of death, the hold of the past on the present, and the power of hope in the face of uncertainty. Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina to mark the centennial of their ancestor's escape from slavery, but an encounter with an old nemesis leads to a life-and-death pursuit. Back in Chicago, George Berry is diagnosed with cancer and strikes a devil's bargain with the ghost of Hiram Winthrop, who promises a miracle cure--but only if George brings Winthrop back from the dead. Fifteen-year-old Horace Berry, reeling from the killing of a close friend, joins his mother, Hippolyta, and her friend Letitia Dandridge on a trip to Nevada for The Safe Negro Travel Guide. But Hippolyta has a secret--and far more dangerous--agenda that will take her and Horace to the far end of the universe and bring a new threat home to Letitia's doorstep. Hippolyta isn't the only one keeping secrets. Letitia's sister, Ruby, has been leading a double life as her white alter ego, Hillary Hyde. Now, the supply of magic potion she needs to transform herself is nearly gone, and a surprise visitor throws her already tenuous situation into complete chaos. Yet these troubles are soon eclipsed by the return of Caleb Braithwhite. Stripped of his magic and banished from Chicago at the end of Lovecraft Country, he's found a way back into power and is ready to pick up where he left off. But first he has a score to settle . . .

A Return to Lovecraft Country

The Destroyer of Worlds

Territorio Lovecraft

Teils Detektivgeschichte, teils Science-Fiction-Thriller – und ganz der neue, witzige Roman von Kultautor Matt Ruff. John Chu liebt seinen Job. Als Sherpa begleitet er zahlungskräftige Kunden in Online-Rollenspiele wie das populäre Call to Wizardry und zeigt ihnen die Kniffe des Games. Das Geschäft brummt, und John würde sich als glücklich bezeichnen, wären da nicht zwei klitzekleine Probleme: Zum einen hat seine Ex-Freundin nach einer unglücklich verlaufenen Trennung geschworen, seine berufliche und private Existenz zu vernichten. Zum anderen vermutet er, dass es sich bei seinem neuesten Kunden in Wirklichkeit um den nordkoreanischen Diktator Kim Jong-un handelt, der die virtuelle Welt studieren möchte, um sie für seine politischen Zwecke zu instrumentalisieren. John versucht, der wahren Identität des ominösen »Mr. Jones« auf die Spur zu kommen – und verstrickt sich in ein Komplott, das ihn den Kopf kosten könnte. Für Leser*innen von Ernest Cline, Jasper Fforde und Douglas Adams.

La casa delle anime

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George-publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide-and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite - heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus's ancestors - they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn-led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb - which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his - and the whole Turner clan's - destruction.A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism - the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.

A computer-generated plague sweeps the world, killing every black person in sight. This is one of a number of doomsday events contained in this futuristic novel where mayhem follows mayhem. In another, a shark is creating havoc in New York's sewer system.

Jane Charlotte: a woman with a serious attitude problem, a drug habit and a licence to kill. She has been arrested for murder, and during questioning tells police that she is a member of a secret organisation devoted to fighting evil. However, the man Jane has been arrested for killing was not on the official target list.

A rollicking, surreal, hilarious novel by the author of Fool on the Hill imagines New York City in the year 2023 as the scene of a conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and an army of homicidal robots. Reprint. K.

Mirage

﻿Uma jornada fantástica e assustadora, adaptada para virar série na HBO com produção do diretor de Corra!, Jordan Peele, e J.J. Abrams Nos Estados Unidos segregados da década de 1950, Atticus é um rapaz negro, veterano da Guerra da Coreia, fã de H. P. Lovecraft e outros escritores de pulp fiction. Ao descobrir que o pai desapareceu, ele volta à cidade natal para, com o tio e a amiga, partir em uma missão de resgate. Na viagem até a mansão do herdeiro da propriedade que mantinha um dos ancestrais de Atticus escravizado, o grupo enfrentará sociedades secretas, rituais sanguinolentos e o preconceito de todos os dias. Ao chegar, Atticus encontra seu pai acorrentado, mantido prisioneiro por uma confraria secreta, que orquestra um ritual cujo personagem principal é o próprio Atticus. A única esperança de salvação do jovem, no entanto, pode ser a semente de sua destruição — e de toda a sua família. E esta é apenas a primeira parada de uma jornada impressionante. Estruturado ao mesmo tempo como uma coletânea de contos e um romance, Território Lovecraft apresenta, além de personagens memoráveis, elementos sobrenaturais, como casas assombradas e portais para outras realidades, objetos enfeitiçados e livros mágicos. Um retrato caleidoscópico do racismo — o fantasma que até hoje assombra o mundo —, a obra de Matt Ruff une ficção histórica e pulp noir ao horror e à fantasia de Lovecraft para explorar os terrores da época de segregação racial nos Estados Unidos.

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