Mushroom Blues

<p><strong>A fascinating merging of oppressive imperialism and disconcerting alienation.--Adrian Tchaikovsky award-winning author of <em>Children of Time </em>& <em>Shadows of the Apt</em></strong></p><p><strong>ENTER THE FUNGALVERSE. BEAT THE WINTER BLUES. <em>Blade Runner</em> <em>True Detective</em> and <em>District 9</em> meld with the weird worlds of Jeff VanderMeer Philip K. Dick and China Mi��ville in Adrian M. Gibson's hallucinatory fungalpunk noir debut.</strong></p><p>Two years after a devastating defeat in the decade-long Spore War the island nation of H��ppon and its capital city of Neo Kinoko are occupied by invading Coprinian forces. Its fungal citizens are in dire straits wracked by food shortages poverty and an influx of war refugees. Even worse the corrupt occupiers exploit their power hounding the native population.</p><p>As a winter storm looms over the metropolis NKPD homicide detective Henrietta Hofmann begrudgingly partners up with mushroom-headed patrol officer Koji Nameko to investigate the mysterious murders of fungal and half-breed children. Their investigation drags them deep into the seedy underbelly of a war-torn city one brimming with colonizers criminal gangs racial division and moral decay.</p><p>In order to solve the case and unravel the truth Hofmann must challenge her past and embrace fungal ways. What she and Nameko uncover in the midst of this frigid wasteland will chill them to the core but will they make it through the storm alive?</p><p><strong>This is like nothing I've read before. Its premise is cool creepy and incredibly unique bolstered by prose as savvy and knife-sharp as the detectives of the NKPD.--Nicholas Eames award-winning author of Kings of the Wyld & <em>Bloody Rose</em></strong></p><p><strong>This is more than a full-throttle mushroom-and-blood-drenched adventure. At its heart Gibson's story is one of acceptance: of hard truths of others and perhaps most critically of oneself.--M. J. Kuhn internationally bestselling author of <em>Among Thieves </em>& <em>Thick as Thieves</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Mushroom Blues</em> is a brilliant debut that encapsulates all I love about the noir mystery genre.--R.R. Virdi bestselling author of <em>The First Binding </em>& <em>The Grave Report</em></strong></p><p><strong>The imagination on display in <em>Mushroom Blues</em> is immense. Prepare to enter a fantasy world unlike anything you've ever seen one that surprises delights and grosses the fuck out.--Moses Ose Utomi author of <em>The Lies of the Ajungo</em></strong></p>