Age Atomic

If you're not careful, Adam Christopher will melt your face off with The Age Atomic the heat of the prose pairs with searing action. This is fireball storytelling and a rare follow-up that's better than its predecessor. <br>- Chuck Wendig, author of Blackbirds <br> The Age Atomic is another masterful tale by Adam Christopher. An action-packed noir Atompunk tale with more layers, facettes and twists than one would expect and which keeps the reader enthralled from the first to the last page. Highly recommended reading! <br>-Traveler, Daily Steampunk <p>More praise for Adam Christopher: <br> Adam Christopher's debut novel is a noir, Philip K Dick-ish science fiction superhero story... a novel of surreal resonances, things that are like other things, plot turns that hearken to other plot turns. It's often fascinating, as captivating as a kaleidoscope... just feel it in all its weird glory. <br>- Cory Doctorow, author of Makers and Little Brother, on Empire State <br> Christopher's tightly plotted novel is a truly original debut that, while subtly referencing Orwell, Kafka, Marvel comics and Philip K Dick, manages to maintain its own distinctive tone - a genuine pathos and longing for something elusively other. Recommended. <br>- The Guardian <br> Adam Christopher maintains a punchy, bestseller prose style that keeps the action rocketing along, and protagonists that seem right both in their own setting, and appropriate to what we already recognise as super heroes. Empire State is an excellent, involving read, and it fully deserves to be the start of a new universe. <br>- Paul Cornell, Doctor Who scriptwriter, and author of Stormwatch and Demon Knights <br> A daring, dreamlike, almost hallucinatory thriller, one that plays with the conventions of pulp fiction and superheroes like a cat with a ball of yarn. <br>- Kurt Busiek, Eisner Award-winning writer of Astro City and Marvels <br> As it happens, I'm a sucker for hard-b