Kris Saknussemm: 5 books
Sea Monkeys
A Memory Book
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Bowling lessons with a hunchback. A bizarre first-grade teacher who hallucinates in class. A tragically innocent family blind-sided by flower power, and the salvation of soul music at a radio station straight out of a Quentin Tarantino version of The Twilight Zone. These are just a few of the luminous...
Enigmatic Pilot
A Tall Tale Too True
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemm’s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dream—and nightmare.
In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd family—Hephaestus,...
Private Midnight
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
“James Ellroy meets David Lynch in this addictive mix of noir and supernatural horror” from the acclaimed author of Zaneville and Enigmatic Pilot (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Det. Birch Ritter is a man on the edge—of himself. His past is filled with secrets, guilt, and ghosts....
In the Shadow of the Towers
Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“Powerful and interesting” short fiction inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, by Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, and other award winners (Publishers Weekly).
How do we continue to dream, imagine, and create in the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy? This moving collection of nearly...
Zanesville
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
WHO IS ELIJAH CLEARFATHER?
Futuristic bioweapon or good old-fashioned messiah? Reincarnated ex-porn star or mutant information-age revolutionary? The man who awakens in New York City’s Central Park with no memory of his identity and the enigmatic message FATHER FORGIVE THEM F carved into...