Synopses & Reviews
To play the Game of Tongues, you must first understand the caste system...
Phineas Poe, troubled antihero of Kiss Me, Judas, returns to Denver to find reality rewritten and the laws of reason fractured. When Poe is enlisted by his old ally, Detective Moon, to find a missing cop named Jimmy Sky, he is drawn into the Game of Tongues, a violent fantasy game played out by disaffected college drones, hacker kids, and Goth refugees in underground punk clubs, on rooftops, and in sewers. Everyone he meets has multiple personalities, and before long Poe begins to lose track of his own identity. If he can hang on to his sanity long enough to find Jimmy Sky, he might just beat the game.
Review
"Demanding, violently lighted changes of brainscape keep you blinking....Baer's over-the-top magic...will attract and lock in new members to his cult." Kirkus Reviews
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"Baer's language is hip, spare, brutal, sometimes gorgeous....The payoff...is the voyeuristic glimpse the novel affords into the imaginary labyrinth inhabited by obsessive, nihilistic gothic gamers." Publishers Weekly
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"Baer is without a doubt a writer with talent and promise." Denver Post
Synopsis
A claustrophobic tale of urban despair and existential noir, Penny Dreadful shares sensibilities with everything from the books of William Gibson and Neal Gaiman to the films Trainspotting and The Matrix and the webgames Doom and Myst.
About the Author
Will Christopher Baer is the author of Kiss Me, Judas and Hell's Half Acre. He lives in California.