Böcker av Sam J. Miller

MATT HASN'T EATEN IN DAYS. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp?and he needs to be as sharp as possible if he's going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away.Matt has discovered something: the less he eats, the more he seems to have . . . powers. The ability to see things he shouldn't be able to see. Maybe even the authority to bend time and space.Matt decides to infiltrate Tariq's life, then use his powers to uncover what happened to Maya. All he needs to do is keep the hunger and longing at bay. But Matt doesn't realize there are many kinds of hunger . . . and he isn't in control of all of them.

From Nebula Award winner Sam J. Miller comes a frightening and uncanny ghost story about a rapidly changing city in upstate New York and the mysterious forces that threaten it.Ronan Szepessy promised himself hed never return to Hudson. The sleepy upstate town was no place for a restless gay photographer. But his father is ill and New York Citys distractions have become too much for him. He hopes that a quick visit will help him recharge.Ronan reconnects with two friends from high school: Dom, his first love, and Doms wife, Attalah. The three former misfits mourn what their town has becomeoverrun by gentrifiers and corporate interests. With friends and neighbors getting evicted en masse and a mayoral election coming up, Ronan and Attalah craft a plan to rattle the newcomers and expose their true motives. But in doing so, they unleash something far more mysterious and uncontainable.Hudson has a rich, proud history and, it turns out, the real-state developers arent the only forces threatening its well-being: the spirits undergirding this once-thriving industrial town are enraged. Ronans hijinks have overlapped with a bubbling up of hate and violence among friends and neighbors, and everything is spiraling out of control. Ronan must summon the very best of himself to shed his own demons and save the city he once loathed.

A visceral, fearlessly imagined future, rich with alarmingly real detail; 'Blackfish City is a place you might never want to live in - but as a reader, you won't want to leave' Adam Sternbergh, author of The Blinds