Theatre of the Gods

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Steampunk space opera Damn right. This is the story of M. Francisco Fabrigas, explorer, philosopher, heretical physicist, who took a shipful of children on a frightening voyage to the next dimension, assisted by a teenaged Captain, a brave deaf boy, a cunning blind girl, and a sultry botanist, all the while pursued by the Pope of the universe and a well-dressed mesmerist. Dark plots, demonic cults, murderous jungles, quantum mayhem, the birth of creation, the death of time, and a creature called the Sweety- all this and more waits beyond the veil of reality.

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Matt Suddains debut is a crazily multilayered odyssey through space, time and the universe next doorits definitely not dull. No book in which the Pope addresses his enemies as Bumface runs that risk. -- Imogen Russell Williams * Metro *
Wholly original, and by turns annoying and exhilarating, this antidote to formula fiction reads like Douglas Adams channeling William Burroughs channelling Ionesco, spiced with the comic brio of Vonnegut. -- Eric Brown * Guardian *
An extremely literate and clever story This is a delightful book, full of surreal twists and turns of invention and humour, written in a breezy and engaging manner. -- Simon Marshall-Jones * Interzone *
Literate, clever, surreal and inventive * Bookseller *

Author Bio

M. Suddain was born on a farm in New Zealand. When he was eight, he wrote a novella called Between & Beyond, about an explorer who travels between universes. After becoming a successful journalist and satirist he moved to London in 2008, where he wrote a radically expanded version of Between & Beyond. It was renamed Theatre of the Gods and published by Jonathan Cape in 2013. Hunters & Collectors is his second novel.