…and the Angel With Television Eyes
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Night Shade Books · Ebook · January 20, 2015
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- Who it’s for
- A surreal journey through Manhattan brings fantasy, reality, pop culture, and technology into uneasy conversation.
- Genres
- Urban Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Horror
- Published
- Night Shade Books, January 20, 2015
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"...And the Angel with Television Eyes" explores the region where fantasy meets reality. This surreal journey of self-discovery and transformation at once questions the nature of our world, and redefines it in the context of 21st century pop culture and technology.
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It takes a writer of John Shirley's talent and audacity to bring together elements as disparate as Shakespeare, Nietzsche, on-line role playing games, soap operas, and classic mythology - binding them together, creating a heady mélange on, above, and below the streets of Manhattan.
Manhattan’s Many Worlds
A surreal journey through Manhattan brings fantasy, reality, pop culture, and technology into uneasy conversation.
Come here for
- A surreal journey of self-discovery and transformation
- Shakespeare, Nietzsche, online role-playing games, soap operas, and classic mythology
Expect
- Questions about the nature of our world
- Elements drawn from Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and classic mythology
Where it sits
| Cyberpunk | 60% |
|---|---|
| Horror | 46% |
| Urban Fantasy | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Fantasy
- Fairy Tales & Myths
- Authors
- John Shirley
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books
- Published
- January 20, 2015
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Fantasy