Godspeed
There is no heaven or hell. There is only the next world, a lawless purgatory called “the Presidio.” Populated by the dead, the undead, angels, monsters, and immortals, the Presidio is located a heartbeat away from this world — for those who know how to get there.
Ryder Fell, a kindhearted thief cursed with visions of the future, is contracted to kidnap Polly Lee James, a sweet sixteen-year-old orphan who is not what she seems. Polly is an exile from the Presidio, and her kidnapping will take Ryder on a collision course with the twisted denizens of purgatory.
Set alternately in modern-day California and the gothic underworld of the Presidio, Godspeed is equal parts dark fantasy and sinister noir, a Paradise Lost for a new generation. - Will Christopher Baer
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This work is of the highest anticipation and the model zeitgeist of the intensive Baer instructed here midyear of 2006. That was the time we first started reading excerpts of this noir fantasy epic tale of one Ryder Fell and the bloodmist that is the godspeed..
And it releases this year, according to editor Pat Walsh !!
I cant wait for this book. Actually a bit ago I was thinking of opening a thread asking people what books they were most looking forward to getting there hands on this year but then I thought it would have been a whole lot of Godspeed anticipation.
I figured this would be more than 250 pages. Seems awfully short.
There was some static about it being the first in a trilogy a while ago, but I don't know if there's any validity to that.
But, yeah, 09's looking to be a damn good year. Baer and Clevenger and Pynchon, oh my...
Stephen Graham Jones has a new collection of short stories coming out, too. Big year for The Velvet, to be certain.
And, yeah, so excited for this. And i've a sneaking suspicion another one of Dr Jones' unpublished novels will make it to the light of day, which i'd be so unbelievably stoked about.
So stoked that i'd even use the word stoked three times in two sentences.
no really...
hahahaHA word is, this year. just later than expected, is all. no worries.