Sputnik’s Children
Terri Favro
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Éditeur:
ECW Press
ECW Press
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2017
2017
ISBN-13:
9781773050058
Description:
<p><b><i>A literary, genre-bending novel full of heart</i></b></p>
<p>Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War era–inspired superhero series, <i>Sputnik Chick: Girl with No Past</i>, for more than 25 years. But with the comic book losing fans and Debbie struggling to come up with new plotlines for her badass, mutant-killing heroine, she decides to finally tell Sputnik Chick’s origin story.</p>
<p>Debbie’s never had to make anything up before and she isn’t starting now. Sputnik Chick is based on Debbie’s own life in an alternate timeline called Atomic Mean Time. As a teenager growing up in Shipman’s Corners — a Rust Belt town voted by <i>Popular Science</i> magazine as “most likely to be nuked” — she was recruited by a self-proclaimed time traveller to collapse Atomic Mean Time before an all-out nuclear war grotesquely altered humanity. In trying to save the world, Debbie risked obliterating everyone she’d ever loved — as well as her own past — in the process.</p>
<p>Or so she believes . . . Present-day Debbie is addicted to lorazepam and dirty, wet martinis, making her an unreliable narrator, at best. A time-bending novel that delves into the origin story of the Girl with No Past, <i>Sputnik’s Children</i> explores what it was like to come of age in the Atomic Age.</p>
<p>Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War era–inspired superhero series, <i>Sputnik Chick: Girl with No Past</i>, for more than 25 years. But with the comic book losing fans and Debbie struggling to come up with new plotlines for her badass, mutant-killing heroine, she decides to finally tell Sputnik Chick’s origin story.</p>
<p>Debbie’s never had to make anything up before and she isn’t starting now. Sputnik Chick is based on Debbie’s own life in an alternate timeline called Atomic Mean Time. As a teenager growing up in Shipman’s Corners — a Rust Belt town voted by <i>Popular Science</i> magazine as “most likely to be nuked” — she was recruited by a self-proclaimed time traveller to collapse Atomic Mean Time before an all-out nuclear war grotesquely altered humanity. In trying to save the world, Debbie risked obliterating everyone she’d ever loved — as well as her own past — in the process.</p>
<p>Or so she believes . . . Present-day Debbie is addicted to lorazepam and dirty, wet martinis, making her an unreliable narrator, at best. A time-bending novel that delves into the origin story of the Girl with No Past, <i>Sputnik’s Children</i> explores what it was like to come of age in the Atomic Age.</p>