<div>From the author of Lovecraft Country: Myth and reality collide on a college campus &ldquo;in a comic fantasy of wonderful energy, invention, and generosity of spirit&rdquo; (Alison Lurie). Stephen Titus George is a young writer-in-residence at Cornell University in upstate New York. A bestselling author in search of a new story, he sees his life as a modern-day fairy tale starring himself as a would-be knight trying to woo a lovely maiden&mdash;or, actually, two: the bewitching Calliope and his guiding light, Aurora Borealis Smith. But he&rsquo;s not quite in control of the narrative. There&rsquo;s another writer with even greater influence on campus. The unseen Mr. Sunshine is an eternal, semi-retired deity who&rsquo;s been fashioning his own story for centuries. He has all his characters in place: dragons, sprites, gnomes, and villains. And now, finally, his hero. As Mr. Sunshine&rsquo;s world comes to fabulous and violent life, how can Stephen decide his own fate if it&rsquo;s already being plotted by a god? An epic of life and death, good and evil, love and sorcery, Fool on the Hill lands Matt Ruff happily on the shelf between Tom Robbins and J. R. R. Tolkien for every lover of the &ldquo;funky and fantastical&rdquo; (New York magazine). &ldquo;Inspired . . . rich in flavorful language . . . [a] dazzling tour de force.&rdquo; &mdash;San Francisco Chronicle &ldquo;The plot comes together like a brilliant clockwork toy.&rdquo; &mdash;Locus</div>

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<div>A satire of a surreal technocratic future by the national-bestselling author of Lovecraft Country: &ldquo;Dizzyingly readable&rdquo; (Thomas Pynchon). High above Manhattan, android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant, as a monument to humanity&rsquo;s power to dream. In the festering sewers below, a darker game is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant&rsquo;s crusading ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why, in this wild romp by the acclaimed author of Fool on the Hill and Lovecraft Country. The year is 2023, and Ayn Rand has been resurrected and bottled in a hurricane lamp to serve as Joan&rsquo;s assistant; an eco-terrorist named Philo Dufrense travels in a pink-and-green submarine designed by Howard Hughes; a Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbie Hoffman; Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark, is running loose in the sewers beneath Times Square; and a one-armed 181-year-old Civil War veteran joins Joan and Ayn in their quest for the truth. All of them, and many more besides, are about to be caught up in a vast conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and a mob of homicidal robots . . . &ldquo;[An] SF roller-coaster satirizing the horrors of our nascent technocracy . . . Told with breezy good humor, this exuberantly silly tale will find an audience among admirers of the day-glo surrealism of Steve Erickson and the tangled conspiracy theories of David Foster Wallace.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;A turbocharged neo-Dickensian hot rod [with] plenty of intellectual horsepower.&rdquo; &mdash;Neal Stephenson</div>

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<div>“This story of a man who suffers from multiple personality disorder is a masterful blend of horror and romance” (Guardian, UK). Not long after Andy Gage was born, his stepfather subjected him to a level of torture and abuse that killing his soul—which broke in pieces. Those pieces then became souls in their own right, co-inheritors of Andy's life. Now, and Andy navigates the outside world, more than a hundred other souls share an imaginary house inside his head. There’s Aaron, the father figure; Adam, the mischievous teenager; Jake, the frightened little boy; Aunt Sam, the artist; Seferis, the defender; and Gideon, who wants to get rid of Andy and the others and run things on his own. Andy's new coworker, Penny Driver, is also a multiple personality, a condition she doesn’t fully grasp. When several of Penny's other souls ask Andy for help, they set in motion a chain of events that threaten the stability of the house—and reveal a terrible secret that Andy has been keeping from himself.</div>

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