Sensation

Description

Julia Hernandez has vanished without a trace...almost. Actually, she has slipped out of the world she knew and into the Simulacrum: a place between the cracks of human existence from which history is both guided and thwarted by the conflict between a species of anarchist wasp and a collective of hyper-intelligent spiders. Told ultimately from the point of view of another species, Sensation plays with the elements of the Simulacrum already in play: media reports, business-speak, blog entries, text messages, psychological evaluation forms and more.

Nick Mamatas is the author of the novels Move Under Ground and Under My Roof, as well as the short story collection You Might Sleep. His writing has been translated into German, Italian, and Greek, and he has been nominated for the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Awards and the Kurd Lasswitz Prize. He is the coeditor of the online magazine Clarkesworld and his essays have appeared in the Clamor, In These Times, the New Humanist, the Smart Set, and the Village Voice. He lives in Oakland, California.

"Nick Mamatas' brilliant comic novel, Sensation, reads like an incantation that both vilifies and celebrates the complex absurdity of the modern world." --Lucius Shepard, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards "The Majestic Plural, or Royal We, is well known--Sensation introduces the Arachnid Plural, the we of spiders, the ones that live inside you. The spiders care about you--deeply--and want to use you in a millennial war against certain parasitic wasps. No, I was wrong. The spiders only want to help. So let them in." --Zachary Mason, the New York Times best-selling author of The Lost Books of the Odyssey