Rich Shapero
Author
Publisher
TooFar Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lyle is a young man who hates his life in the State of Salt, a cultural and literal desert. He vandalizes a State icon, then swallows a poison pill that transports him not to death, but to a liminal realm - blue, watery, and wholly alien. He's rescued and shepherded by henchmen of the Polyp, god of the oceanic world they call "heaven". A series of encounters unfolds between Lyle and the monstrous, seductive god, who gradually reveals his grandeur...
Author
Publisher
Outside Reading
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"To tell his story, Shapero fuses his provocative novel with hypnotic, original music--featuring the vocals of Marissa Nadler--and the visionary art of Donald Pass. The result is a riveting and fully immersive storytelling experience."--Box container.
Author
Publisher
TooFar Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Rin, Tongue, and Dorner takes place in an apocalyptic future, where humanity survives in temperature regulated geodomes. The protagonist, Dorner, has committed himself to his career as a Planner, keeping the temperature of his colony constant through a system of furnaces as well as a strict code of human conduct. Extremes of human activity -- violence, extreme athleticism, and excessive sexual activity -- can threaten the thermal balance. His vow...
Author
Publisher
Outside Reading
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Zachary Knox, a sharpshooter known as "the Bull's-Eye Telepath," heads north in search of gold. On his way he meets Sephy, a magnetic woman on the trail of her lost brother. But on arrival, they find the mining camp is home to a cult. The mine boss, Trevillian, rules the camp like a despotic priest, and at the center of his faith is hope, an elusive goddess for whom the miners toil, enduring increasingly perilous trials as they pursue her into the...