RADIO: A Novel

RADIO is a SPFBO 2020 (Self-Printed Fantasy Weblog-Off) Semi-Finalist.

Amid the music, lights and vitality of 1928’s Paris, one thing sinister pulses via the æther. The Radio of the Gods manipulates minds throughout the continent and its creator, the boastful god Marduk, will sacrifice every little thing to maintain his type from perverting his masterpiece.

Tried treason and bitter betrayal drive Marduk to flee into a brand new, unknown physique. Worse nonetheless, the earlier proprietor, an opium-addicted jazz guitarist, continues to be inside.

Determined, drug-addled and combating for management, Marduk is pressured to depend on the few mates he has left — and one terrifying enemy — to see his mission to fruition. If Marduk and firm fail, the gods’ useless machinations will destroy every little thing they’ve constructed, together with civilization itself, all made potential by his RADIO.

Thoughts management, the gods of outdated, opium, and jazz collide in J. Speeding’s darkish, fantasy noir tackle the Misplaced Era’s Paris. Each metropolis, even the Metropolis of Gentle has its darkish corners. From these shadows, the gods create their very own mythology and in our heads, their monsters are as actual as any.