As crime rises, no one stands to gain more than the city’s architects-and, of course, the shareholders who make the place possible. The bloodier and more daring posts pay off the most. Rising out of the American desert, this city is a real-world manifestation of a social media network where fame-hungry desperados compete for likes and followers.

Imagine a city fueled entirely by social media. What Logan doesn’t know-or at least, can’t remember-is that she and her friends will all have to return to their grownup bodies once the summer is over. Logan will again be a successful, middle-aged woman, and the popular boy she has a crush on? He will return to his life as a celebrity suspect at the center of a high-profile murder case.Neon Empire (Rare Bird / California Coldblood Books) Sam is a twenty-year-old counselor, taking on the responsibility of the kids’ care by day, and riding the rollercoaster of a summer romance after hours.Īs Logan faces the ups and downs of puberty, Sam watches over her and struggles with the bizarre truth: the campers in her care are not kids at all, but wealthy adults immersed in the ultimate escape from reality. She wants to ride horses, make new friends, and she loves listening to ghost stories. Twelve-year-old Logan has come to have a relaxing, carefree summer. “Twisted, sinister, and wildly inventive, Quinlan Grim delivers a chilling campfire story that will keep you up past lights out.”Ĭamp Phoenix is a controversial and expensive summer camp program that transfers adults’ consciousness into a clone of their childhood selves. On the surface, it’s an ordinary summer camp. “Quietly insightful speculative fiction that will appeal to fans of Westworld and Black Mirror.” Written in spare, haunting prose that recalls Cormac McCarthy, Gaze Long Into The Abyss is a classic tale of redemption and damnation, told by one of the foremost action-adventure craftsmen at work today. Together, they set off across a grim landscape populated by survivors turned brigands, bandits, and exhausted warring factions-all of them looking for answers that may have vanished when their loved ones did. He seeks out the help of the Old Man – who, in his own time, traveled to the ends of the Earth and back, in his own vain quest to save the world.

The Kid hears his calling: to find the source of the evil, and put an end to it. John, or some other calamity of biblical proportions? In Gaze Long Into The Abyss, acclaimed Marvel Studios screenwriter Dalan Musson plunges us into a vivid but desolate world: An apocalypse has snatched away most of humanity the ragged, remaining few are picking up the pieces. “An intriguing, haunting fever dream at the world’s end.”

Neon Empire by Drew Minh