Name: The Devil's Alphabet
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Author: Daryl Gregory
ISBN: 9780345501172

Type

Physical Book

Author

Daryl Gregory

Publisher

Del Rey Books

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

388

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.68

ISBN

9780345501172

ISBN13

9780345501172

Synopsis "The Devil's Alphabet "

From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy.Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease–dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)–vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies.Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn’t change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside.Having fled shortly after the pandemic, Pax now returns to Switchcreek fifteen years later, following the suicide of Jo Lynn. What he finds is a town seething with secrets, among which murder may well be numbered. But there are even darker–and far weirder–mysteries hiding below the surface that will threaten not only Pax’s future but the future of the whole human race.

Daryl Gregory

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Daryl Gregory nació en Chicago (EE. UU.) en 1965 y se graduó en Lengua Inglesa y Teatro por la Universidad Estatal de Illinois en 1987. Es escritor a tiempo completo y ha publicado en las revistas más destacadas del género. Escribe también para el mercado del cómic. Vivió un tiempo en Oakland (California), y en la actualidad reside en su Chicago natal.

Su primer relato, “In the wheels”, se publicó en The Magazine of F&SF en 1990. Su primera novela, Pandemonium (2008), ganó el premio Crawford de Fantasía al mejor autor novel en el 2009 y quedó finalista del World Fantasy. The Devil’s Alphabet (2009) fue finalista del Philip K. Dick, y Vida y milagros de Stony Mayhall (2011), elegida por la Library Journal entre las mejores del año. Afterparty (2014) fue finalista del Campbell y del Lambda Literary Award, y la novela corta Estamos todos de puta madre (2014) obtuvo el World Fantasy y el Shirley Jackson, y quedó finalista del Nebula. La extraordinaria familia Telemacus (2017) está siendo adaptada a televisión. Su último título publicado es la novela corta The Album of Dr. Moreau (2021).

Completan su bibliografía la novela juvenil Harrison Squared (2015), de la que anuncia dos continuaciones, y la colección de relatos Unpossible and Other Stories (2011). Como guionista, ha escrito Dracula: The Company of Monsters (2010), en colaboración con Kurt Busiek; Planet of the Apes (2011), para boom! Studios, y la novela gráfica Secret Battles of Genghis Khan (2013), para IDW.

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