The Devil's Alphabet by Daryl Gregory

The Devil's Alphabet by Daryl Gregory

From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy.

Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease-dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)-vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies.

Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn't change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside.

Having fled shortly after the pandemic, Pax now returns to Switchcreek fifteen years later, following the suicide of Jo Lynn. What he finds is a town seething with secrets, among which murder may well be numbered. But there are even darker-and far weirder-mysteries hiding below the surface that will threaten not only Pax's future but the future of the whole human race.

Daryl Gregory is the author of the Tor.com novelette Nine Final Days on Planet Earth, which was a Hugo finalist. Spoonbenders, a Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award finalist now in development at Showtime, is his fifth novel. His story We Are All Perfectly Alright was a finalist for the Nebula, Sturgeon, and Locus Awards, and won the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Awards. Unpossible and Other Tales, a Publishers Weekly top book of the year, contains many of his short works. Daryl currently resides in Oakland, California.

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ISBN 13	9780345501172
ISBN 10	0345501179
Title	The Devil's Alphabet
Author	Daryl Gregory
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2009-11-24
Number of pages	400
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.