Empire State

"Adam Christopher's debut novel is a noir, Philip K Dick
ish science fiction superhero story. It's often fascinating,
as captivating as a kaleidoscope… Just feel it in all its
weird glory."

  
C
ORY
D
OCTOROW
, New York Times-bestselling author of 
Makers
and
Little Brother

 

"Adam Christopher maintains a punchy, bestseller prose
style that keeps the action rocketing along...
Empire State
is an excellent, involving read, and it fully deserves to be
the start of a new universe."

  
P
AUL
C
ORNELL
,
Doctor Who
scriptwriter, and author of
Stormwatch
and
Demon Knights

 

"A daring, dreamlike, almost hallucinatory thriller, one
that plays with the conventions of pulp fiction and
superheroes like a cat with a ball of yarn."

  
K
URT BUSIEK
, Eisner Award-winning writer of
Astro City 
and
Marvels

 

"A double shot of jet-noir steampunk nitroglycerine – a
startling, throat-grabbing novel that echoes Chandler,
Auster and Mieville while blazing its own mind-bending
trail and searing itself onto your memory."

  W
ILL HILL
, author of
Department 19

 

"Destined to be a science fiction classic,
Empire State
is a breathtakingly original noir tale of intrigue, mystery, and quantum physics, deftly played out in storytelling so brilliant I’m finding it hard not to hate the author.”

  
D
IANA
R
OWLAND
, author of
My Life as a White Trash 
Zombie

 

"Adam Christopher's
Empire State
is a fascinating debut novel that meshes noir sensibilities and science fiction together and keeps the reader guessing throughout.”

  
M
ICHAEL STACKPOLE
,
New York Times-bestselling author of
I, Jedi

 

"From first to last page, Adam Christopher's
Empire State
careens along at a furious pace. Along the way, he beautifully meshes the best noir tropes with science fiction and wraps it up in a world (or two) that rivals some of the classics of speculative fiction.”

  J
OHN HORNOR JACOBS
,
author of
Southern Gods

 

"
Empire State
doesn't screw around. Murders, mysteries and multiple realities are just the icing atop this pulp noir cake: the action starts on the opening page but it isn’t long before you fall in love with the characters and the unique world Adam Christopher has built for them.”

  C
HUCK WENDIG
, author of
Double Dead

 

"From the first explosive rat-a-tat-tat of bullets to the very
last twist and turn,
Empire State
surely cannot be a début
novel. The fantastical dreams of Verne and Wells mixed
with the noir reality of Spillane or Chandler, this is a book
that doesn't play by the rules – and is all the better for it."

  
T
ONY LEE
,
New York Times-bestselling author and
Doctor 
Who
comic writer "

New York City is an amazing and fantastical place, and it doesn't need an author like me to make it any more so. However, the Empire State is Manhattan reflected through a clouded lens, and I have exercised artistic licence where the story demanded. I hope the reader will forgive any liberties taken, be they geographical, topographical, or temporal.

"Judge Crater, call your office," said the man with the microphone.

  Everybody laughed.