Till Human Voices Wake Us

In such groundbreaking novels asCracheandIdolon, Mark Budz established his reputation as one of science fiction's most exciting and innovative writers. Now he surprises us again with an ambitious new thriller set in three realities at once, where three different lives hang in the balance.... What if your world were rapidly running out of tomorrows? And what if the only way to save the future was to relive the past? But which past holds the key to survival? That's the life-and-death question faced by three desperate people separated by the past, present, and future but who share a single terrifying reality. A tortured soul, brain-damaged in a motorcycle accident, issues a pirate broadcast out of a van in near-future California. In Depression-era San Francisco an architect with an inoperable brain tumor seeks a mystical cure. A post-human space traveler caught in a cosmic accident searches for a way to reconstruct himself and the future. In Mark Budz's spellbinding narrative, their livesand deathsare drawn together by a force even more powerful than destiny. From the Paperback edition.

Mark Budz lives in northern California with his wife, fellow author Marina Fitch. His short stories have appeared in Amazing Stories and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. His first two novels, Clade and Crache, were published by Bantam Spectra in December 2003 and November 2004, respectively.