Agents of Dreamland

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Sep 2020 · Tinfoil Dossier Book 1 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Danny Campbell and Chelsea Stephens

About this audiobook

A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. 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. In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible-the Children of the Next Level-and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming and they will help to usher it in. A day after the events at the ranch house which disturbed the Signalman so deeply that he and his government sought out help from 'other' sources, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory abruptly loses contact with NASA's interplanetary probe New Horizons. Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact. And a woman floating outside of time looks to the future and the past for answers to what can save humanity.

Ratings and reviews

It's some excellent lovecraft mythos cosmic horror without the drawbacks of actual lovecraft. Only drawback: It's incredibly short. I can't wait to see if she makes a full-length novel in the genre.

About the author

Caitlin R. Kiernan is the author of over a dozen science fiction and dark fantasy works, including the novels The Drowning Girl and The Red Tree; many comic books; and more than two hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. She has garnered numerous awards, including two World Fantasy Awards.

A classically trained actor, director, and teacher with many regional Shakespeare plays to his credit, Danny Campbell has narrated over 150 titles and directed at least that many. He is a multiple AudioFile Earphones Award winner and was named one of AudioFile's Best of the Year 2017.

Chelsea Stephens has a longtime love and appreciation for the performing arts, with experience in on-stage acting, singing, and voice-over. Her love for reading books and the pursuit of the story led her to narration. She enjoys unfolding characters and bringing listeners into new worlds.