Paperback, 276 pages
English language
Published Dec. 23, 2011 by Autumn Christian.
Charles lives on the black planet, a place where plague machines terrorize citizens with swarms of locusts and rivers of blood, salesmen sell sleep in the form of brain implants, and God appears on the television every night to warn of the upcoming apocalypse. When Charles meets Leda, a woman who claims to have escaped from hell, he begins to suspect that the black planet is not at all what it appears to be. After Leda disappears, Charles sets out to find her with help from his stripper ex-girlfriend, the deadhead Jeanine. Along the way he will uncover the truth of the origins of the black planet, and discover the source of the mysterious voice that calls to Leda from the ocean waves.
Holy hell. This was a book that reaches out with dripping, clawed hands, grabs your head, and refuses to let you look away. Compelling and beautifully written book about so much that is ugly.
It could have benefited from another copy edit, but it’s honestly so compelling you barely notice.
