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Necronauts
Paperback
Publisher Price: $20.00
ISBN13: 9781945233326
Publisher: Stillhouse Press
Published: Nov 14 2025
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Calypsee, Utah: a small fundamentalist town at the edge of nowhere whose patron saint is Ronald Reagan and whose motto is In Armageddon We Trust. Among its misfits, perverts, and prophets lives a boy wearing a cosmonaut helmet-or maybe it's just an old fishbowl-who wants more than anything to launch himself into outer space. Written in the form of ninety-five newspaper obituaries and interspersed with vernacular photography, Necronauts is a loosely reimagined Pinocchio tale and ode to campy old sci-fi films. By turns philosophical and whimsical, savage and sentimental, Ryan Habermeyer's funhouse ride through the American West is also an intimate portrait of fathers and sons and a searing satire of 1980s Americana-where addictive religious paranoia and suspect science blur into a quixotic fever dream full of reckless fantasy.
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