Tom King A Once Crowded Sky Epub (Tom King)

9781451652000 Tom King Touchstone 2012

Synopsis:
A tour de force debut novel from a former CIA counter-terrorism officer, A Once Crowded Sky fuses the sensibility of bombastic, comic-book-style storytelling with modern literary fiction to bring to life a universe of super men stripped of their powers, newly mortal men forced to confront danger in a world without heroes.
The superheroes of Arcadia City fight a wonderful war and play a wonderful game, forever saving yet another day. However, after sacrificing both their powers and Ultimate, the greatest hero of them all, to defeat the latest apocalypse, these comic book characters are transformed from the marvelous into the mundane.
After too many battles won and too many friends lost, The Soldier of Freedom was fine letting all that glory go. But when a new threat blasts through his city, Soldier, as ever, accepts his duty and reenlists in this next war. Without his once amazing abilities, he’s forced to seek the help of the one man who walked away, the sole hero who refused to make the sacrifice—PenUltimate, the sidekick of Ultimate, who through his own rejection of the game has become the most powerful man in the world, the only one left who might still, once again, save the day.
Kirkus Reviews:
King’s debut novel is mostly textual narrative highlighted by random, comic-book-style illustrations. The Liberty Legion are superheroes, gods generated from the friction between good and evil, each with sublime powers. The Legion’s leader is a robot. Ultimate, The Man with the Metal Face, was born at his human creator’s death. Cognizant but confused, asking an existentialist "Why?," Ultimate soon stumbled upon a superhero comic as his awareness expanded. Ultimate decides "This was why I was built….The mission to save the world." And decades later, it was Ultimate alone and without explanation who chose to face The Blue, transcendental evil. With Ultimate gone, the Legion flounders. Left behind are The Soldier of Freedom, the cryogenically preserved bastard grandson of George Washington; Star-Knight; Distant Sun; Mashallah; Sicko; Runt; Freedom Fighter; Strength; Doctor Speed; Devil Girl; Prophetier; and PenUltimate, adopted as a boy by Ultimate and trained for succession. Each has a superpower; each deals with a tension-charged back story. With Ultimate gone, the superheroes are left powerless, and their home, Arcadia City, is in peril. The story is composed of alternating sequences of surreal narratives and crash-bang-boom action scenes, with the saga of brutality and betrayal climaxing at the Villains’ Graveyard. Literary exposition–"The glimmering particle in the glimmering fountain becomes a glimmering picture, becomes the sketch of a man frozen against the sky"–alternates with streetwise dialogue–"What job, yo?…It’d help, help jack this thing, beat it?" King’s work is beyond postmodern, complex in conception, perhaps too esoteric for mainstream fiction fans, but relevant to the graphic-novel, video-gaming generation.
Biography:
Tom King worked for the counterterrorism unit at the Central Intelligence Agency, following the events of 9/11. Before the CIA, he worked for DC Comics and Marvel. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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