Acid Green Velvet is less a novel and more a seduction. A story of decay and decadence, family and betrayal, crime and capitalism, Krilanovich's first novel in almost twenty years, focuses on Paulette, a life-long grifter who has wormed her way into the richest and most powerful household in the town, just as a swell of vagrants, con artists, and would be revolutionaries threaten to overthrow the social and economic order. Acid Green Velvet is a truly fecund novel filled with breathtaking images, brain-halting sentences, and lots of unanswered questions.

France's defining fantasy/science fiction odyssey of the 21st century, the basis of the award-winning video game Expedition 33 and now published in English for the first time, celebrates twenty-three ...