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The everything box
- Title
- The everything box / Richard Kadrey.
- Author
- Kadrey, Richard
- Publication
- New York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFE 16-8798 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 352 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Reminiscent of the edgy, offbeat humor of Chris Moore and Matt Ruff, the first entry in a whimsical, fast-paced supernatural series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim novels--a dark and humorous story involving a doomsday gizmo, a horde of baddies determined to possess its power, and a clever thief who must steal it back. again and again. 2000 B.C. A beautiful, ambitious angel stands on a mountaintop, surveying the world and its little inhabitants below. He smiles because soon, the last of humanity who survived the great flood will meet its end, too. And he should know. He's going to play a big part in it. Our angel usually doesn't get to do field work, and if he does well, he's certain he'll get a big promotion. And now it's time.The angel reaches into his pocket for the instrument of humanity's doom. Must be in the other pocket. Then he frantically begins to pat himself down. Dejected, he realizes he has lost the object. Looking over the Earth at all that could have been, the majestic angel utters a single word."Crap." 2015. A thief named Coop--a specialist in purloining magic objects--steals and delivers a small box to the mysterious client who engaged his services. Coop doesn't know that his latest job could be the end of him--and the rest of the world. Suddenly he finds himself in the company of The Department of Peculiar Science, a fearsome enforcement agency that polices the odd and strange. The box isn't just a supernatural heirloom with quaint powers, they tell him. It's a doomsday device. They think.And suddenly, everyone is out to get it"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Apocalyptic fiction.
- Paranormal fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-8798
- ISBN
- 9780062389541
- 0062389548
- LCCN
- 2015041562
- OCLC
- 2015041562
- Author
- Kadrey, Richard, author.
- Title
- The everything box / Richard Kadrey.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
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- Other Form:
- Online version: Kadrey, Richard. Everything box First edition. New York : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016] 9780062389565 (DLC) 2015044325
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-8798
