Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman.Sign up to receive information about new books, author events, and special offers.“Kiernan’s writing — starkly visual, tongue in cheek and disturbingly visceral — carries the day.” —CAITLIN R KIERNAN is the author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including multiple novels ( Her writing is amazing, but I'm not sure what to say about AGENTS OF DREAMLAND other than I really liked it.Received to review via Netgalley; publication date 28th February 2017Received to review via Netgalley; publication date 28th February 2017Big fan of Kiernan, I've really enjoyed everything I've read by her but I was just a bit let down. Agents of Dreamland is an access point to a place threatened by cosmic powers and defended by at least one shadowy guardian organization. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Probably a case of high expectations because it is a good story. involving surly hard-boozin' secret agents and government spooks (most of whom are somewhat sketchily developed) investigating a mycology-obsessed cult named The Children of the Next Level (seemingly modeled after both the Manson Family and the Heaven's Gate cult, with a dollop of Lovecraft tossed in because of course it is). This was a very trippy, non-time-consecutive-type story of seedy government agents, doomsday cults, beings that exist without being fixed to one point in time, and invading fungus monsters from beyond Pluto.....I think.Caitlin Kiernan has done some interesting things within this novella. I actually read Black Helicopters first, which I enjoyed immensely.Another superlative Tor novella. And then there is Immacolata Sexton herself, whom may exist (or follow a perception) somewhere outside of time and space, hopping from one time period and location to another, from decades of curious discovery nearly a century ago and into frightful decades yet to come. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of But only at first glance.”A couple of weeks before, a young woman named Chloe describes her time spent with Drew Standish, a sort of cult leader who is collecting lost and easily manipulated members to become the Children of the Next Level.

This short novel (somewhat similar to the author's 'Black Helicopters" in that it utilizes the same sort of non-linear achronological method of storytelling as that latter work, though I thought it was better deployed there than here) moves along at a brisk pace and there are some nice sentences and similes ("The AC purrs like a cat made of ice"), along with the always welcome scientific jargon, non-existent cursed films and mythological/arcane references. A few days later a goverment special agent called The Signalman (because of his watch) is meeting a woman in a remote town of Arizona, after a raid at the site of the cult mentioned, to exchange information and trying not to freak about what he has seen (and read) during the raid. Chapter … Agents of Dreamland is a new Lovecraftian horror novella from award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan. CAITLIN R KIERNAN is the author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including multiple novels (The Drowning Girl, The Red Tree, and Agents of Dreamland); many comic books; and more than two hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes.They are also the author of scientific papers in the field of paleontology. Highly recommended for anyone who loves good Lovecraftian fiction (and especially to those of you who like BAD/AWFUL Lovecraftian pastiches). I actually read Black Helicopters first, which I enjoyed immensely.So this is yet another riff on Lovecraft, but I have to say that this has got to be the best one I've read to date. What she observes, discovers, catalogues, and cultivates in these shifts are perhaps the most disturbing hints of all in this tight, twisted novella.It’s a bit hard to comprehend the amount of story that is told in a little over 120 pages; this owes largely to the novella’s jigsaw puzzle-like narrative structure. About the Author. online at ABC.com. Agents of Dreamland is a new Lovecraftian horror novella from award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan. The mention of a cult in the premise lured me in, but this is a much more ambitious story than that, all the more so for being squeezed into such a lean package. This is definitely a work of dark fiction and a good one. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. In this novella, Kiernan takes Lovecraftian horror elements, and transposes them into an X-Files-type setting. Agents of Dreamland is classic Kiernan, and I recommend it thoroughly. I can't remember seeing the spy/horror story played this straight, this well, with such vivid writing and sharp, baked sense of place. For some reason,… A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. “Too often, it occurs to him that he’s lived just long enough to have completely outlived the world that made sense to him, the world where he fit. So think apocalyptic fiction thrown in with some cosmic terrors along with a cult subplot and some disturbing alien interference and some behind the shadows investigation story and a time traveling non neutral observer...and then you'll have an idea of what thisFirst time reading the author and quite an introduction as far as those go. Anyway, still a strong story that anyone who enjoys cosmic horror will find entertaining.This novella was sent to me by the publisher, Tor.com, at no cost. But what I love about her writing is an ability to use language in a lyrical, hallucinatory/dream/fugue way and except for the few passages from the cultists POV she didn't really venture into that side of her writing. Start by marking “Agents of Dreamland (Tinfoil Dossier, #1)” as Want to Read:


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