Via Jeff:
Michael Cisco's The Traitor is out now from Prime Books. I read this in manuscript a while ago, and much of its imagery still is with me. Cisco is one of those authors that makes me want to publish books. I want to publish his books. I want to put out these amazing, fierce and terrifying novels.
While I've enjoyed everything of Cisco's that I've read, The Traitor is easily the best thing he's written. If you've never read Cisco before, this is an excellent place to start. I can't sum it up any more succinctly that Paul Tremblay does in his Amazon review:
One of my favorite reads of the year. Surrealistic setup; the narrator is a soul burner, employ of the Empire, and must hunt down Wite, a soul burner turned spirit eater. Cisco turns the strange and exotic into something so personal. The key here, is the narrative voice. So many writers don’t know how to use first person to their advantage (and I love me a good first person) and Cisco nails it in this book. The narrator’s voice/rhythm was hypnotic, mesmerizing, the repeated bits like incantations. It builds suspense and release at the right times, and the last line of the novel, after the narrator has flogged and implicated the reader, then made the reader want to be a part of humanity’s destruction, that last line is just pitch perfect.
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