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Metallic Realms : A Novel by Lincoln Michel (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAtria Books
ISBN-101668058677
ISBN-139781668058671
eBay Product ID (ePID)28072096518
Product Key Features
Book TitleMetallic Realms : a Novel
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year2025
GenreFiction
AuthorLincoln Michel
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight16.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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ReviewsAdvance Praise for Metallic Realms "A brilliant, funny, and pulpy homage to the golden age of science fiction." -- Esquire , The 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025, "A marvelous romp of a book, a tragicomic interweaving of tales, a kaleidoscopic journey that takes place simultaneously in a city apartment and in the vast reaches of space. With his characteristic wit and intellect, Lincoln Michel unearths all sorts of truths about loneliness, community, creativity, and fan culture. I couldn't put this book down, and it delighted me at every turn." -- Helen Phillips, author of The Need and Hum, "A wild, playful, mind-bending ride, Metallic Realms is an homage in equal parts to Nabokov and to online indie writing communities. A novel ultimately about the sacred communing that takes place when the writer's imagination meets that of the reader. It is a one-of-a-kind novel that only Lincoln Michel could have written." --Vauhini Vara, author of The Immortal King Rao and This is Salvaged, "Metallic Realms accomplishes in prose what the classic silent comedians accomplished on film, turning the trips and missteps of a born fumbler into acrobatics: Nothing goes well, but perfectly . Delightful to behold." --Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Ghost Variations, Advance Praise for Metallic Realms "A marvelous romp of a book, a tragicomic interweaving of tales, a kaleidoscopic journey that takes place simultaneously in a city apartment and in the vast reaches of space. With his characteristic wit and intellect, Lincoln Michel unearths all sorts of truths about loneliness, community, creativity, and fan culture. I couldn't put this book down, and it delighted me at every turn." -- Helen Phillips, author of The Need and Hum, "A sci-fi masterpiece. The story soars across galaxies but finds its emotional heft in a deft portrait of literary lives in New York and the many dramas of their mingled ambitions and disappointments." -- LitHub, "Filled with endless geeky goodness...A delightfully meta concept, executed to perfection." -- The Speculative Shelf
SynopsisFantastic universes and personal dramas collide as a group of friends blur the line between real life and fiction with delightfully disastrous results from the acclaimed author of the "timeless and original" ( The New York Times ) The Body Scout . Perennially single, socially awkward, and drowning in debt, Michael Lincoln finds his life has turned out nothing like the intergalactic lives of the pulp heroes of his youth. But these are pedestrian concerns--he has a higher calling, and that is to preserve for all posterity the greatest series in the history of the written word: The Star Rot Chronicles. Written collectively by Michael's best (and perhaps only) friend Taras K. Castle and his misfit science fiction writing group, the Orb 4, the stories follow Captain Baldwin and his fearless crew on their mind-bending adventures across the Metallic Realms, from solar whales swallowing suns at the edge of spacetime to extraterrestrial romances and interstellar wars. These masterpieces have gone tragically unpublished--until now. But the most urgent story Michael must tell takes place in the more intimate (if no less dramatic) confines of literary Brooklyn. Behind the greatest universe ever created, there are the all-too-mortal people who wrote it. As Michael chronicles the personal melodramas of the Orb 4 as well as the fun house reflections in their fiction, the line between real and unreal becomes dangerously thin, and the true reasons for the group's fallout begin to emerge. As he labors away in hiding, Michael has just one mission: to bring the Metallic Realms to the world. No matter the cost.
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