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SeasonalIDW Publishing, Spring 2022
Voice of the Fire (25th Anniversary Edition)
By (author):
Alan Moore
Alan Moore
Imprint:
Top Shelf ProductionsISBN:
9781603095075Product Form:
PaperbackForm detail:
Trade
Paperback
, Trade
English
Audience:
General / adult
Mar 01, 2022
$19.99 CAD
Active
Dimensions:
7.81in x 5.13 x 0.77 in | 0.8 lbPage Count:
312 pages
Top Shelf Productions
FICTION / Literary
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- Author Bio
- Reviews
Discover the astonishing first prose novel from the legendary author of Watchmen and From Hell — an epic yet intimate portrait of a single English town across the whole span of human history.
The precursor to Jerusalem.
In a story full of lust, madness, and ecstasy, we meet twelve distinctive characters that lived in the same region of central England over the span of six thousand years. Their narratives are woven together in patterns of recurring events, strange traditions, and uncanny visions. First, a cave-boy loses his mother, falls in love, and learns a deadly lesson. He is followed by an extraordinary cast of characters: a murderess who impersonates her victim, a fisherman who believes he has become a different species, a Roman emissary who realizes the bitter truth about the Empire, a crippled nun who is healed miraculously by a disturbing apparition, an old crusader whose faith is destroyed by witnessing the ultimate relic, two witches, lovers, who burn at the stake. Each interconnected tale traces a path in a journey of discovery of the secrets of the land.
Throughout, the image of the fire resonates between the tales, while Moore finds a different voice for each character – though most are inherently duplicitous in some manner, leading to a further commentary on the disparity between myth and reality, and which is more likely to endure over time.
Co-Published by Top Shelf Productions (USA) and Knockabout (UK).
With a new cover design by John Coulthart.
The precursor to Jerusalem.
In a story full of lust, madness, and ecstasy, we meet twelve distinctive characters that lived in the same region of central England over the span of six thousand years. Their narratives are woven together in patterns of recurring events, strange traditions, and uncanny visions. First, a cave-boy loses his mother, falls in love, and learns a deadly lesson. He is followed by an extraordinary cast of characters: a murderess who impersonates her victim, a fisherman who believes he has become a different species, a Roman emissary who realizes the bitter truth about the Empire, a crippled nun who is healed miraculously by a disturbing apparition, an old crusader whose faith is destroyed by witnessing the ultimate relic, two witches, lovers, who burn at the stake. Each interconnected tale traces a path in a journey of discovery of the secrets of the land.
Throughout, the image of the fire resonates between the tales, while Moore finds a different voice for each character – though most are inherently duplicitous in some manner, leading to a further commentary on the disparity between myth and reality, and which is more likely to endure over time.
Co-Published by Top Shelf Productions (USA) and Knockabout (UK).
With a new cover design by John Coulthart.
—ICONIC AUTHOR: Alan Moore is the most acclaimed writer in the history of comics, and a godlike figure in the world of speculative fiction.
—CATCH A SECOND WIND: Moore, now retired from graphic novels, has just announced a 5-volume fantasy epic in prose fiction, so it’s a perfect time to discover his first novel.
—Alan Moore’s astonishing first prose novel is just as groundbreaking and mind-blowing as his celebrated achievements in the graphic novel form (Watchmen, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta, etc)
—Alan Moore’s second novel, Jerusalem (2016, Liveright/Norton), has sold a combined 30,000 Bookscan units despite its staggering thousand-page length, and created a new generation of readers primed for discovering Voice of the Fire.
—Moore continues to be a vital cultural figure, as his million-selling Watchmen graphic novel saw not only a 2009 film but a smash hit 2019 series on HBO.
—Lately out of print, Voice of the Fire now returns for its third Top Shelf edition with an all-new cover.
Marketing: Build word-of-mouth through Netgalley/Edelweiss
Advance promotion through Summer & Fall 2021 at SDCC@Home, etc.
Publicity: Full advance e-galley sent to review journals, media, and Netgalley/Edelweiss
Promoted in Top Shelf newsletter and social media
Promoted with full-page ads inside IDW comic books
Advance excerpts placed in comics & literary media
Advance promotion through Summer & Fall 2021 at SDCC@Home, etc.
Publicity: Full advance e-galley sent to review journals, media, and Netgalley/Edelweiss
Promoted in Top Shelf newsletter and social media
Promoted with full-page ads inside IDW comic books
Advance excerpts placed in comics & literary media
“Do not trust the tales, or the town, or even the man who tells the tales. Trust only the voice of the fire.”—Neil Gaiman
“A daring, unsettling work of literature.”—Locus
“[Alan Moore’s] many-layered, symbolism-intensive comics style…shows through in his prose writing, which is packed with big ideas about millennia-spanning drifts in human history, language, conceptualization, storytelling, and religion. But he doesn’t let those ideas get in the way of his solid, entertaining yarns…Part mythic cycle, part fictional history of Moore’s hometown, part collection of fireside ghost stories, Voice of the Fire is as clever and well-crafted as Moore’s other genre experiments, and by taking his dialogue out of word-balloons and panel arrangements, it gives his limitless literary ambition room to stretch out into new and fascinating forms.”—Tasha Robinson, The A.V. Club
