An unusual blend of thriller, alchemical fantasy and climate apocalypse, it's a wild, entertaining ride

Guardian

Part horror, part dystopia, part magical realism and part social commentary, <em>Saturnalia </em>defies genre, but it is dark, disturbing and totally perfect for a winter read. I'd defy anyone not to be intrigued. You might not like it. You might be terrified by it. You might love it, but you won't be indifferent to it

My Weekly

October demands that gothic, autumnal read and <em>Saturnalia</em> is it... This has it all: magic, mystery, a fierce female protagonist, and a fast paced plot that will keep you turning the pages

Glamour (Best New Books for October 2023)

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A propulsive mystery-thriller, with Nina pursued by both a creepy man-shaped critter and her own past, but also a portrait of a terrified city slowly losing its collective mind. Future Philly falls somewhere between steampunk and cyberpunk - baroque, pungent, stratified, crumbling - and Feldman gives its plight considerable emotional charge by making it feel real and lived-in. Like her home, Nina is broken and bitter - but not without humanity and hope

SFX Magazine (SFX LOVES, 5 STAR REVIEW)

'An intoxifying mix of genres... you enter <em>Saturnali</em>a feeling like it is a Bacchanalia dreamscape and exit in a similar fashion'

SFBook Reviews

Doors open at 7. The sacrifice is at 9. The dress code is, as usual, black tie. It's the winter solstice in a Philadelphia that has been eroded by extreme weather, economic collapse, and disease-carrying mosquitoes. The Saturnalia carnival is about to begin, an evening on which reality is suspended, and troubles forgotten. For tarot reader Nina, Saturnalia is simply a cruel reminder of the night that changed everything for her - the night she walked away from the elite Saturn Club, with its genteel debauchery, arcane pecking order, and winking interest in alchemy and the occult. But when she gets a chance call from Max, her last remaining friend from the Saturn Club, Nina will put on a dress of blackest black and attend the Club's wild solstice masquerade, the biggest party of the year, on a mysterious errand she can't refuse. Before the night is over, she will become the custodian of a horrifying secret - and prey to a mysterious hunter.
Les mer
Unfolding during a city-wide solstice celebration in a near-future Philadelphia, Saturnalia is a story about environmental collapse and class warfare, trauma and rebirth... and magic......
An unusual blend of thriller, alchemical fantasy and climate apocalypse, it's a wild, entertaining ride

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780857308399
Publisert
2023-10-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Verve Books
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

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STEPHANIE FELDMAN is the author of the debut novel The Angel of Losses, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, winner of the Crawford Fantasy Award, and finalist for the Mythopoeic Award. She is co-editor of the multi-genre anthology Who Will Speak for America? and her stories and essays have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Catapult Magazine, Electric Literature, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Rumpus, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. She lives outside Philadelphia with her family.