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Praise for the Novels of Nick Sagan

Edenborn

In Nick Sagans novel, the survivors of a plague have a chance to start all over again... [but] the new generation of humanity is, if anything, even more spiteful, schizophrenic, ideologically fixated, and generally screwed up than any of its predecessors.... [Sagan] knows how to keep the pages turning. The New York Times

All the best science fiction is about human beings, not technology or aliens; stories about the last men and women in the world are therefore even more poignant. But what Nick Sagan does here goes well past genre tropes and into rare climates of terror, pathology, and rage; hope, from this vantage, seems more fighterly and ragged than noble or sentimental. Edenborn is a daring and refreshing look at one too possible future. EDGE Boston

Poetic.... Sagans sharp observations and rich imagination entertain... and lay a strong groundwork for volume three.

Publishers Weekly

Elegant SF, dark and haunting, with characters who linger in memory long after the last page is turned. SF Site

Gripping.... The storys heart lies in the complexity of the characters psyches, motivations, and relationships, which propel the action and augment the overriding sense of desperation. Booklist

[Edenborn] delivers a number of powerful emotional punches... another excellent character-driven work of literature from an author with a great deal of promise.

Infinity Plus

I believe that Edenborn is the finest book that I have read this year.... Its one of those few books that I literally could not put down.... Sagans mantelpiece deserves to be heaving with shiny metallic awards and I certainly do not think it would be wrong to mention the word Hugo.... Sagan is an adrenaline shot straight into the heart of SF. Do yourself a favordont miss these books. SF Crowsnest

[An] appealing chronicle of superhuman folly. Starburst

Edenborn is one of the best postapocalyptic novels you will ever read.... The story itself is one that has been thought out and rehashed so many times that to experience such an exciting and original take on it is breathtaking. With a rumbling urgency throughout, Edenborn is tough to put down without finishing, whilst Sagans depiction of a fragile, fallible race will bring people back to this book time and time again. Its not often authors like Nick Sagan crop up, and its a crying shame they dont. SFX Magazine (5-star review)

Thrilling and unsettling, Edenborn serves both as a gripping stand-alone story and as a strong linchpin for where this prospective trilogy has been, and wherever it might be going next. Wigglefish

Idlewild

A genuine page-turner. Absolutely fun, like a roller-coaster ride of fusion fiction: starts out like Amber meets The Matrix, and as it goes on, it turns into several something elses... gripping... the kind of book you simply dont want to stop reading. Neil Gaiman

This guy obviously has a sense of wonder in his DNA. This book is an essential upgrade for the Matrix generation download now! Sagan has a ferocious imagination, and he knows his field; I caught echoes of Gibson, Egan, Stephenson... and he can tell a great human story: the sentence he gave to Voyager I isnt the last of his words to touch human hearts. Stephen Baxter

Sagan provides plenty of suspense and perfectly captures the angry adolescent solipsism that makes kids into hackers and superheroes. Entertainment Weekly

The authors compelling tendency to interweave mythology with his story sets him apart from less-gifted writers in this literary niche. San Francisco Chronicle

Riveting.... Nick Sagan both embraces and contests his famous fathers vision of the universe. Popular Science

A dark, twisted carnival of oddities and slippery reality... beautiful... an extraordinary ride. Ithaca Times

Reading Idlewild is an intriguing, sometimes baffling experience, but somehow never confusing or frustrating. A stunning twist of plot brings all the threads together.... Idlewild is a real page-turner: an engrossing, exciting debut, an excellent summer read. NPR

A fun but frightening place, something like Disneyworld seen through a Hieronymus Bosch filter... wonderful.

Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Aimed at the audiences of The Matrix and Minority Report and fans of Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, and Mark Danielewski, Sagans novel... is a fine debut... and fans of those same authors will enjoy this. Library Journal

The tension is palpable from the first page.... Sagan captures perfectly the voice and actions of a rebellious, extremely intelligent teenager... mesmerizing. Booklist

Idlewild is an entertaining and suspenseful science fiction novel.... Nick Sagans devious mind moves events in unexpected directions... an impressive debut. Rambles

Sagan seems to delight in changing the rules just when you think youve got the hang of them. Theres plenty to confound the readers expectations, and all of it is couched in engaging, well-paced prose.... This is one of the best Ive read.... Its utterly astonishing. Infinity Plus

This is an absolutely stunning novel and a great entry for Sagan onto the scene. The text is packed full of dark humor and wonderfully evoked settings.... Sagans characters are well defined; each has a unique personality that is striking and memorable, resonating in my mind long after the book was finished.... It is rare for an SF novel to pack so much into so little space. Its what youd get if you took all the best bits of Buffy and stirred in a healthy dose of philosophy and seasoned it with some Grade-A postapocalyptic pepper.

SF Crowsnest

Bloody good. Fusing elements of cyberpunk with the hitech crime novel, Idlewild is taut, edgy SF. SFX Magazine

Also by Nick Sagan

Idlewild

Everfree

ROC

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Published by Roc, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Previously published in G. P. Putnams Sons and New American Library editions.

First Roc Printing, April 2008

Copyright Damned If I Dont Productions, 2004

Excerpt from Everfree copyright Damned If I Dont Productions, 2006

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