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The Silence

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1982563729, 9781982563721
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Tim Lebbon

Tim Lebbon is a talented, highly-respected author, and the winner of the British Fantasy Society’s August Derleth Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2006) for Dusk (Bantam Spectra, 2006), the first of his “Noreela” fantasy saga. It was followed with the release of Dawn (Bantam Spectra, 2007), and 2008 sees the publication of Fallen. Mr. Lebbon is the co-author with Christopher Golden of the novel Mind the Gap: A Novel of the Hidden Cities (Cemetery Dance: May 2008; Bantam Spectra, May 2008). He also wrote Hellboy: Unnatural Selection (Pocket Books, 2006), and The Everlasting (Necessary Evil Press, March 2007; Leisure Books, May 2007). Mr. Lebbon is also the author of The New York Times-best-selling novelization of the terrifying horror movie 30 Days of Night (Pocket Star, 2007), which is on the short-list for a “Best Novel (Adapted)” Scribe Award in the category of “Speculative Fiction”. The Second Annual Scribe Awards is presented by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, which acknowledges and celebrates excellence in licensed tie-in writing, and will be presented at the San Diego ComicCon in July of this year. Several of his novels and novellas are currently in development as movies.

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Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of COVID-19. The Silence is the story of a different catastrophic event. Its resonances offer a mysterious solace. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them after what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in north-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed. What follows is a dazzling and profoundly moving conversation about what makes us human. Never has the art of fiction been such an immediate guide to our navigation of a bewildering world. Never have DeLillo's prescience, imagination and language been more illuminating and essential. --

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