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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Books / Nerd Lovecraft Country Is Coming

Posted by on Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:40 PM

Local author Matt Ruff told us it was coming last month, but today it's official: HarperCollins will publish Ruff's next novel, Lovecraft Country. On his blog, Ruff explains:

It’s a supernatural historical drama set in the 1950s. The protagonist is Atticus Turner, an African-American soldier just back from the Korean War. He comes home to Chicago and takes a job as a researcher for The Safe Negro Travel Guide, which lists and reviews hotels and restaurants that accept black customers. Atticus is also a pulp-fiction fan, and the novel describes how he and the members of his extended family get drawn into a series of real-life weird tales. These individual episodes fit into a larger arc story about a white-supremacist secret society that wants to use Atticus in its scheming.

Lovecraft Country will be published in 2015 or very early 2016. Ruff read a rough draft of the work at the Hugo House a few years back, and it sounds like it'll be worth the wait.

 

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Will in Seattle 1
Sounds exciting!
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on March 13, 2013 at 2:02 PM
2
Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't.
Posted by j.lee on March 13, 2013 at 2:32 PM
Anne18 3
@2 Love that quote, although unsure of its intent within the context of this post.

This book sounds great.
Posted by Anne18 on March 13, 2013 at 2:45 PM
gttrgst 4
From the headline I was hoping for a theme park, some sort of Cthulhuian Dollywood.
Posted by gttrgst on March 13, 2013 at 2:58 PM
bleedingheartlibertarian 5
@4 ME TOO!!!

But a new Matt Ruff book is pretty exciting. And this does sound like it could be a good one.
Posted by bleedingheartlibertarian on March 13, 2013 at 3:45 PM

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