Liminal States

By: Zack Parsons

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Synopsis: &“An awe-inspiring, helter-skelter journey through mind-blowing SF, western dime novel, noir mystery, and near-future dystopian horror&” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The debut novel from Zack Parsons, editor of the Something Awful website and author of My Tank Is Fight!, is a mind-bending journey through time and genres. Beginning in 1874, with a blood-soaked western story of revenge, Liminal States follows a trio of characters through a 1950s noir detective story and twenty-first-century sci-fi horror. Their paths are tragically intertwined—and their choices have far-reaching consequences for the course of American history. It&’s a remarkable mashup that &“somehow manages to become a cohesive, thought-provoking whole . . . There&’s no way a novel with this many moving parts should hold together, but it does, and even readers initially daunted by the jumble will soon be glad to go wherever Parsons takes them&” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). &“Parsons&’s debut is a tour-de-force, a justifiably showy demonstration of the author&’s chameleon-like ability to write in several genres all at once, and it emerges as one of the scariest and bleakest tales I can remember.&” —Cory Doctorow