Steve Erickson

"""Poiché non avevo mai fatto un sogno, una notte mi sono svegliata e sono andata a cercarne uno..."" Alle soglie del nuovo millennio, dagli abissi scivolosi della memoria una giovane di diciassette anni sussurra la sua storia all''orecchio di un uomo morto. Duemillesima vittima di un suicidio di massa degli ultimi istanti del Ventesimo secolo, lei, Kristin, e riuscita a sfuggire al suo destino e nel risveglio del mondo futuro incontra l''Occupante, un uomo devastato dal rimpianto, che in una stanza chiusa si immola all''opera della sua vita: il Calendario dell''Apocalisse, una mostruosa concezione che misura il tempo moderno secondo lo schema del caos e per il quale il nuovo millennio e incominciato il 7 maggio 1968. E mentre intorno a loro la gente seppellisce i ricordi in appositi cimiteri, comincia un fantastico dipanarsi di racconti in prima persona, senza soluzione di continuita. Pian piano attorno alle bocche si delineano i volti smarriti dei personaggi, le cui vicende attraversano il tempo e lo spazio chiudendo in cerchio mondi diversi come la Parigi contestataria degli anni Settanta, gli odierni sobborghi di Los Angeles e un''avveniristica Tokyo; personaggi accomunati da legami di sangue e d''affetto e i cui atti si condizionano a vicenda, ma incapaci di riconoscersi e ritrovarsi e che insieme, ma su strade parallele, verranno proiettati verso un epilogo amaro e ambiguo. "

"""Cinefilo allo spasimo, Erickson, eppure, allo stesso tempo, un passo oltre, e altrove: nei territori del sogno. Forse, a una prima lettura, ""Zeroville"" potrebbe sembrare un romanzo su Hollywood, carico com''e di citazioni e rimandi ellittici da iniziati, un romanzo per cinefili, uno di quei libri che escludono appunto tutti quelli che iniziati non lo sono neanche un po. Ma sarebbe fermarsi al primo livello, perche non e un romanzo su Hollywood - o almeno, non solo, perche certo e anche questo - e un romanzo come ha dichiarato il suo stesso autore in un''intervista, che parla piuttosto di come il Cinema, i film, siano diventati parte integrante del sistema nervoso contemporaneo. Il cinema ha cambiato le nostre percezioni, il nostro modo di interpretare la realta, suadente e persuasivo ci ha accompagnati nel corso del tempo in territori al tempo stesso affascinanti e mostruosi, rassicuranti e terrificanti. E parte integrante del nostro immaginario, cosi come lo sono i sogni che facciamo la notte, e che si mescolano alle esperienze reali: questo e il tessuto della nostra vita, la trama fitta in cui arte e vita si intrecciano senza che sia piu possibile districare un filo dall''altro."" Dalla postfazione di Simona Vinci. "

"Jaw-dropping. In Shadowbahn, Steve Erickson weaves a playlist for the dying American century with his usual lucid-dreaming prose. I've read every novel he's ever written and I'll still never know how he does it: A tour-de-forcer's tour de force." --Jonathan Lethem, Granta When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the Badlands of South Dakota twenty years after their fall, nobody can explain their return. To the hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands drawn tothe “American Stonehenge”—including Parker and Zema, siblings on their way from L.A. to visit their mother in Michigan—the Towers seem to sing, even as everybody hears a different song. A rumor overtakes the throng that someone can be seen in the high windows of the southern structure. On the ninety-third floor, Jesse Presley—the stillborn twin of the most famous singer who ever lived—suddenly awakes, driven mad over the hours and days tocome by a voice in his head that sounds like his but isn’t, and by the memory of a country where he survived in his brother’s place. Meanwhile, Parker and Zema cross a possessed landscape by a mysterious detour no one knows, charted on a map that no one has seen. Haunting, audacious, and undaunted, Shadowbahn is a winding and reckless ride through intersections of danger, destiny, and the conjoined halves of a ruptured nation.

En el sagrado desierto de Raraku, Sha’ik la vidente y sus seguidores se preparan para el levantamiento profetizado largo tiempo atrás, «el Torbellino». Esclavizada en las minas de otataral, Felisin,

Confrontée à la crise économique et victime de sa croyance en un monde meilleur, une famille blanche de Los Angeles, déstabilisée par l’adoption d’une fillette éthiopienne, quitte les États-Unis pour

These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life life-forms, to boldly blow the...And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback - think James T Kirk crossed with American Dad'' - and his motley crew on board the Starship Willful Child for a series of devil-may-care, near-calamitous and downright chaotic adventures through the infinite vastness of interstellar space...The bestselling author of the acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence has taken a life-long passion for ''Star Trek'' and transformed it into a hugely entertaining spoof on the whole mankind-exploring-space-for-the-good-of-all-species-but-trashing-stuff-with-a-lot-of-hi-tech-kit-along-the-way type over-blown science fiction adventure. The result is smart. inventive, occasionally OTT and often very funny - a novel that both deftly parodies the genre and pays fond homage to it.

Our Ecstatic Days begins as the memoir of a young mother desperate to forget a single act, committed out of love and fear, that has changed forever the world around her. In the waning days of summer, a lake appears, almost overnight, in the middle of Los Angeles. In an instant of either madness or revelation, convinced that the lake means to take her small son from her, Kristin becomes determined to stop it. Three thousand miles away, on the eve of a momentous event, another young woman -- with a bond to Kristin that she cant even know -- meets a mysterious figure who announces in the dark, "The Age of Chaos is here."Against a forbidden landscape that shimmers with destiny and yearning, Our Ecstatic Days finally takes place on the terrain of a defiant heart. Human connections multiply into astonishing twists of fate -- by which the wrongs of an obsolete century may be set right -- and parallel lives spin faster toward the possibility that they will once again unite, electrifying a vision of the century to come.

Confrontée à la crise économique et victime de sa croyance en un monde meilleur, une famille blanche de Los Angeles, déstabilisée par l’adoption d’une fillette éthiopienne, quitte les États-Unis pour

n una época convulsa y azotada por catástrofes naturales, el rostro de una joven, la infancia de un niño ilegítimo en un burdel de París y un fragmento de una obra maestra del cine perdida son las únicas pistas de que un hombre dispone para recuperar su pasado. Este rastro le lleva de una ciudad de Los Angeles medio sepultada en arena hasta una Europa donde el rio Sena esta congelado, unos ciclistas corren por los canales vacios de Venecia y los secretos se alternan entre si como los fotogramas de una pelicula. "Dias entre estaciones" es una magistral cinta de Moebius que utiliza en su desarrollo narrativo los recursos cinematograficos propios de cada una de las epocas que recorre, ademas de un homenaje a la que es considerada la mejor obra del cine mudo, "Napoleon", de Abel Gance.

A LA TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2017 (FICTION)"A beautiful, moving, strange examination of apocalypse and rebirth. - Neil Gaiman"Erickson has mobilized so much of what feels pressing and urgent about the fractured state of the country in a way that feels fresh and not entirely hopeless, if only because the exercise of art in opposition to complacent thought can never be hopeless." - New York Times Book ReviewA chronicle of a weird road trip, a provocative work of alternative history, and a dazzling discography of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, encompassing artists from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, SHADOWBAHN is a richly allusive meditation on the meaning of American identity and of America itself."Jaw-dropping," says Jonathan Lethem (Granta).

These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life life-forms, to boldly blow the...And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback - think James T Kirk crossed with American Dad - and his motley crew on board the Starship Willful Child for a series of devil-may-care, near-calamitous and downright chaotic adventures through the infinite vastness of interstellar space... The bestselling author of the acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence has taken a life-long passion for Star Trek and transformed it into a hugely entertaining spoof on the whole mankind-exploring-space-for-the-good-of-all-species-but-trashing-stuff-with-a-lot-of-hi-tech-kit-along-the-way type over-blown science fiction adventure. The result is smart. inventive, occasionally OTT and often very funny - a novel that both deftly parodies the genre and pays fond homage to it.

A beautiful, moving, strange examination of apocalypse and rebirth. - Neil Gaiman"Erickson has mobilized so much of what feels pressing and urgent about the fractured state of the country in a way that feels fresh and not entirely hopeless, if only because the exercise of art in opposition to complacent thought can never be hopeless." - New York Times Book ReviewA chronicle of a weird road trip, a provocative work of alternative history, and a dazzling discography of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, encompassing artists from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, SHADOWBAHN is a richly allusive meditation on the meaning of American identity and of America itself."Jaw-dropping," says Jonathan Lethem (Granta).

"Una tarde de agosto de 1969, una “familia” hippie encabezada por Charles Manson perpetra cinco violentos asesinatos en los desfiladeros que dominan Los Ángeles. El mismo día, un joven estudiante de