Book of Secrets - Softcover

Roberson, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857660101 ISBN 13: 9780857660107

Publisher: Angry Robot, 2010

Synopsis

IT'LL TAKE MORE THAN ANGELS AND DEMONS TO STOP HIM. Reporter Spencer Finch is embroiled in the hunt for a missing book, encountering along the way cat burglars and mobsters, hackers and mysterious monks. At the same time, he's trying to make sense of the legacy left him by his late grandfather, a chest of what appear to be pulp magazines from the golden age of fantasy fiction. Finch gradually uncovers a mystery involving secret societies, generations of masked vigilantes - and an entire hidden history of mankind.

About this title

Review:

Far more self-aware and entertaining than "The Da Vinci Code". --Death Ray Magazine

Book of Secrets is a book of genres...a celebration of the age of pulp with a meta-fictional slant...the novel is structured like a Swiss watch and paced like a Tennessee walker...In the time of the post-Tolkienians and the novel as brick, Book of Secrets is unique, refreshing, breezy, and fun.' --Red Rook Review

A rip-roaring read with a multi-layered plot and an original and surprising conclusion. I can see myself re-reading it for pleasure in future. What more can you ask of a book? --SF Crowsnest.

About the Author:

Chris Roberson is obsessed with superhero comics, pulp fiction, puppetry, animation, history, and science, and has a Bachelor of Arts in English and Liberal Arts Honors from the University of Texas at Austin, 1992. His books include the novels Here, There & Everywhere, The Voyage of Night Shining White, Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, X-Men: The Return, Set the Seas on Fire, End of the Century, Iron Jaw and Hummingbird, The Dragon s Nine Sons, Three Unbroken, and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, and the comic book mini-series Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Asimov s Science Fiction, PostScripts, and Subterranean.

About this edition

• Publisher: Angry Robot
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0857660101
• ISBN 13: 9780857660107
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Illustrator: ARGH! Nottingham