Agents of Dreamland

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A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman.In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible the Children of the Next Level and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence The future is coming and they will help to usher it in.A day after the events at the ranch house which disturbed the Signalman so deeply that he and his government sought out help from other sources, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory abruptly loses contact with NASA s interplanetary probe New Horizons Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact.And a woman floating outside of time looks to the future and the past for answers to what can save humanity. New Download [ Agents of Dreamland ] Author [ Caitlín R. Kiernan ] – kino-fada.fr A government agent called The Signalman has a meeting with a mysterious woman in Winslow, Arizona about a bizarre cult murder near the Salton Sea days earlier But what do those events have to do with the New Horizons space probe and a black and white movie penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs.Despite my resolve to take on as few ARCs as possible this year, I couldn t resist this one when it popped up on Netgalley It sounded wonderfully bizarre and it was.Much like half of the books I ve read so far A government agent called The Signalman has a meeting with a mysterious woman in Winslow, Arizona about a bizarre cult murder near the Salton Sea days earlier But what do those events have to do with the New Horizons space probe and a black and white movie penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs.Despite my resolve to take on as few ARCs as possible this year, I couldn t resist this on...Beautifully creepy In this novella, Kiernan takes Lovecraftian horror elements, and transposes them into an X Files type setting A government agent known as The Signalman is set to meet another operative, Immacolata, regarding the actions of a California doomsday cult For some reason, he finds his fellow operative evenfrightening than the cult even though brutal, horrific deaths have occurred.Meanwhile, a young woman explains how the Children of the Next Level gave her life...Not actually about the Dreamlands, although there is plenty of other Lovecrafty stuff in use A four star for quality, although not for quantity I feel like there was a lot of material here that could have haddone with it, especially in terms of the two agents and their agencies Hopefully Kiernan will dowith this world.The idea of the view spoiler alien fungal invasion growing human bodies hide spoiler was pretty gross, but the book as a whole didn t feel as creepy or fright Not actually about the Dreamlands, althoug...On June 2015 at the Moonlight Ranch near Salton Sea, a cult leader Drew Standish is preparing his followers, Children Of The Next Level for the peak event of his cause A few days later a goverment special agent called The Signalman because of his watch is meeting a woman in a remote town of Arizona, after a raid at the site of the cult mentioned, to exchange information and trying not to freak about what he has seen and read during the raid And NASA s interplanetary probe, New Horizons , i On June 2015 at the Moonlight Ranch near Salton Sea, a cult leader Drew Standish is preparing his followers, Children Of The Next Level for the peak event of his cause A few days later a goverment special agent called The Signalman because of his watch is meeting a woman in a remote town of Arizona, after a raid at the site of the cult mentioned, to exchange information and trying not to freak about what he has seen and read during the raid And NASA s interplanetary probe, New Horizons , is about to have a moment of no contact, for surprising reasons sometime after this meeting Something has view spoiler noticed there is life on Earth hide spoiler Look over your shoulder Become the wife of Lot.A pillar of salt Enlightened.The woman is Immaco...So this is yet another riff on Lovecraft, but I have to say that this has got to be the best one I ve read to date Certainly the closest to the source material in tone and it shows all the technique of the master horror writer that Caitlin is.The story hops around in time telling the story of an apocalyptic cult in California and an investigator known only as the Signalman as he investigates and tries to stop it This features elements from all over the Lovecraftian mythos An agent of Y The w So this is yet another riff on Lovecraft, but I have to say that this has got to be the best one I ve read to date Certainly the closest to the source material in tone and it shows all the technique of the master horror writer that Caitlin is.The story hops around in time telling the story of an apocalyptic cult in California and ...Deliberately set in the American southwest in the summer of 2015 when the New Horizons space probe was swiftly approaching the orbit of Pluto , the narrative hops from one time period and location to another, following three characters on very different and yet directly related journeys Kiernan tells their stories with equal amounts of lucidity and pathos, yet each with a distinctive voice and style.Fans of classic weird fiction author H P Lovecraft will be pleased to know that this novell Deliberately set in the American southwest in the summer of 2015 when the New Horizons space probe was swiftly approaching the orbit of Pluto , the narrative hops from one time period and location to another, following three characters on very different and yet directly related journeys Kiernan tells their stories with equal amounts of lucidity and pathos, yet each with a distinctive voice and style.Fans of classic weird fiction author H P Lovecraft will be pleased to know that this novella is something of a meditation upon his classic 1931 short story The Whisperer In Darkness, in which a man pieces together evidence of a terrifying alien conspiracy at work in rural Vermont, and which also has a lot to do with the then newly discovered Pluto.In something of a nod to espionage fiction, an aging government operative referred to only as the Signalman meets with a strange and mysterious woman, Immacolata Sexton Their discussion is...Fantastic I can t remember seeing the spy horror story played this straight, this well, with such vivid writing and sharp, baked sense of place Kiernan nails the creeping doom, the long hopeless struggle, and pushes past into deeper human and inhuman territory of memory, jealousy, and time.This was a very trippy, non time consecutive type story of seedy government agents, doomsday cults, beings that exist without being fixed to one point in time, and invading fungus monsters from beyond Plu...Caitlin Kiernan has done some interesting things within this novella We meet the Signalman, a secret agent of sorts who has just returned from a mission to sniff out an end of days cult, where he and his partner discover that their particular choice of koolaid , a very unique form of fungi, may actually be heralding in the end of days He and a strange woman, who appears to...Wow this is short but really powerful stuff here, my first introduction to this author and its making me want to read everything.So, this is dark fantasy scifi and the general plot could described as Alien Invasion with loopy time travel shenanigans and a basis in authentic scientific fact If you can cope with the creepy try googling Zombie Fungus.The characters are extraordinarily well drawn for a novella, Caitlin R Kiernan has the magic touch when it comes to getting across personality and de Wow this is short but really powerful stuff here, my first introduction to this author and its making me want to read everything.So, this is dark fantasy scifi and the general plot could described as Alien Invasion with loopy time travel shenanigans and a basis in authentic scientific fact If you can cope with the creepy try googling Zombie Fungus.The characters are extraordinarily well drawn for a novella, Caitlin R Kiernan has the magic touch when it comes to getting across personality and depth through very few words whic...

Agents of Dreamland
  • English
  • 20 February 2017
  • ebook
  • 112 pages
  • Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • Agents of Dreamland