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‘Gripping . . . an unforgettable ride.’ RON HOWARD, Academy Award-winning director ‘I felt slapped awake by Godfall’s brilliant conceit . . . thought-provoking, awe-inspiring, and visionary.’ BENJAMIN PERCY, writer of Wolverine ‘Engrossing, genre bending . . . will have you staying up long past your bedtime.’ KARIN SLAUGHTER, author of We Are All Guilty Here
A MASSIVE ASTEROID HURTLES TOWARDS EARTH. HUMANITY IS BRACED FOR ANNIHILATION – BUT THE END DOESN’T COME . . .
NONE MATT SUPERMATT
Because it’s not an asteroid, but a three-miletall alien that settles – seemingly dead, its
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body pierced by a blade – outside Little
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Springs, Nebraska. Dubbed ‘the giant’, its
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arrival transforms this red-state farm town into a top-secret research site and major
VA N J E N S E N is an acclaimed novelist,
DAN CHAON, author of Sleepwalk
screenwriter and comic book writer. Godfall,
Howard attached to direct. Jensen began his
‘The genre-mashup novel of my dreams. With breathtaking imagery and razor-sharp prose, Van Jensen gives us a story that is part alien sci-fi, part mystery.’
career as a newspaper crime reporter, then
ERIN FLANAGAN, author of Deer Season
his debut novel, is in development as a TV series with Academy Award winner Ron
broke into comic books and graphic novels as the writer of ARCA (IDW), Two Dead
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scientists, agents, bureaucrats, spies,
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(Gallery 13) and Tear Us Apart (Dark Horse). Jensen has written world-renowned characters including Superman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Godzilla and James Bond. He has served as a Comic Book Ambassador for the U.S. State Department, teaching refugee children to tell their stories through
GARY PHILLIPS, author of One-Shot Harry
As the sheriff of Little Springs, David Blunt thought he’d be keeping the peace among the same people he’d known all his life, not breaking up chanting crowds of doomsday cultists, busting drugs gangs . . . or trying to catch a cunning and elusive killer. As the brutal, bizarre murders move ever by strange dreams of a cosmos in chaos – throws himself into the hunt for a predator who seems somehow connected to the giant. But in order to find the answers, he must
‘Godfall blends rural noir with a daring dose of sci-fi to create something wholly new and engaging.’ ALEX SEGURA, author of Secret Identity
comics. He lives in Atlanta.
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and a murderer.
closer to home, Blunt – increasingly troubled
‘Van Jensen delivers the sense-bending strange in this tale of mystery and wonder.’
first reconcile his old worldview with the place he now lives in – before it’s too late. This glorious, genre-busting debut novel begins with a mind-boggling science fiction
‘It isn’t easy to infuse magical realism with grit, but Godfall does it with panache . . . a striking debut novel.’
scenario straight out of The Day the Earth
KEVIN MAURER, author of Damn Lucky
a very ordinary community is turned upside
Stood Still that thrillingly segues into a heart-stopping hunt for a terrifying killer as down by something utterly extraordinary . . .
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metropolitan area, flooded with soldiers, criminals, conspiracy theorists . . .
‘A fresh and surprising genre mashup . . . Van Jensen is a terrific writer, and I was under the book’s strange and extraordinary spell from start to finish!’
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