It Devours! by Joseph Fink - ISBN: 9780062476074
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Science, faith, love, and cosmic horror in a desert town.

It Devours!

A Welcome to Night Vale Novel

$51.16

  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    8 January 2019

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Summary

A new page-turning mystery about science, faith, love and belonging, set in a friendly desert community where cosmic horror, ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life. Welcome to Night Vale…

“Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. I’m packing up and moving to Night Vale!” - Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780062476074
ISBN-10:0062476076
Author:Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:Collins
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:8 January 2019
Weight:295g
Dimensions:203mm x 135mm x 25mm
Series:Welcome to Night Vale
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Fans will find it refreshing to see Night Vale from different perspectives … but knowledge of the podcast isn’t required to follow the story. This unusual experiment in format-shifting works surprisingly well.” - Publishers Weekly

“Very clever…. With a gripping mystery, a very smartly built world (a place similar to our own world but at the same time distinctly other), and a cast of offbeat characters, the novel is a welcome addition.” - Booklist

“A mysterious, must-read exploration of the Great Unknowns, with a touch of Carl Sagan and Agatha Christie.” - Marisha Pessl, New York Times bestselling author of Night Film and Special Topics in Calamity Physics

&#8220A mysterious, must-read exploration of the Great Unknowns, with a touch of Carl Sagan and Agatha Christie.”

“Will be a delight for fans but also features a funny but nuanced story about the chasm between faith and science… . A confident supernatural comedy from writers who can turn from laughter to tears on a dime.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A lively romp in a bizarre world [and] a thoughtful, touching examination of how science and religion might coexist both in Night Vale and beyond.” - barnesandnoble.com

”[A] smart exploration of the divide–and overlap–of science and religion…. a thrilling adventure and a fascinating argument that science and belief aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.” - Tor.com

It Devours! is a fun, fast-paced novel full of off-the-wall humor. The characters’ struggles to find consensus in their opposing viewpoints keep the novel grounded amid the otherworldly antics.” - Yakima Herald

It Devours! is different from other mystery novels. It is as captivating and light as any mystery novel can be but explores one of the most complex issues: the conflict between science and reason on the one hand and, on the other hand, religion and cult.” - Washington Book Review

“With a gripping mystery, a very smartly built world (a place similar to our own world but at the same time distinctly other), and a cast of offbeat characters, the novel is a welcome addition to any library’s SF shelf.” - Booklist

“Thought-provoking … The relationship between science and religion is satisfyingly explored with humor and insight. Readers need not be familiar with the podcast or the previous book to enjoy this work, but fans will appreciate the cameos from well-known Night Vale residents.” - Publishers Weekly

“With cameos from minor characters and the same fanciful sense of humor, the authors deliver not only a love letter to fans, but also a compelling drama that shows people coming together in a world that feels like it’s coming apart–which isn’t the worst message to broadcast these days. A confident supernatural comedy from writers who can turn from laughter to tears on a dime.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Will be a delight for fans but also features a funny but nuanced story about the chasm between faith and science… A confident supernatural comedy from writers who can turn from laughter to tears on a dime.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“If art exists to make the stone stony, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor exist to ask how the stone got there, and why is it shaped like a crocodile, and what strange and creeping threat will it eventually be used to smash.” - Patricia Lockwoood, author of Priestdaddy

“Everything Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor touch turns to gold, which then turns to gold dust, which then finds its way into every corner of your heart and never leaves–no matter how much you may want it to.” - Jonny Sun, author of everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too

It Devours! is an extremely worthy addition to the saga of Night Vale. Witty and well-crafted, it perfectly captures the odd town and its wonderfully strange, sometimes unsettling inhabitants.” - Charles Soule, New York Times bestselling author of Death of Wolverine, She-Hulk, and The Oracle Year: A Novel

About The Author

Joseph Fink

Joseph Fink is the creator of the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead podcasts, and the New York Times bestselling author of Welcome to Night Vale, It Devours!, and The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home (all written with Jeffrey Cranor), and Alice Isn’t Dead. He is also the author of the middle-grade novel, The Halloween Moon. He and his wife, Meg Bashwiner, have written the memoir The First Ten Years. They live together in the Hudson River Valley.

Jeffrey Cranor cowrites the Welcome to Night Vale and Within the Wires podcasts. He also cocreates theater and dance pieces with choreographer/wife Jillian Sweeney. They live in New York.

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