Spirits in the Wires: A Novel of Myth and Magic—On the Streets and On the Net
Mar 2024 · Macmillan + ORM
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From the World Fantasy Award–winning author: A website malfunction causes unexpected trouble for a modern city infused with magic and myth.
Charles de Lint's Newford novels are renowned for their imaginative scope and memorable characters. In Spirits in the Wires, de Lint returns to his captivating city as it enters the Internet age.
The city of Newford has it all—including its own popular research and library website, Wordwood. But when Wordwood mysteriously crashes, everyone visiting the site instantly vanishes. Longtime resident Christy Ridding witnesses his girlfriend Saskia disappears right before his eyes. . . .
To rescue their missing friends, Christy and his companions must journey into Newford's otherworld, where the Wordwood, it transpires, has a physical presence of its own...
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Daniel Strom
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December 3, 2014
One of my favorite Charles de Lint books
About the author
Charles de Lint pioneered the urban fantasy genre with critically acclaimed novels and stories set in and around the imaginary modern North American city of Newford: The Onion Girl, Moonheart, The Ivory and the Horn, and the collection Moonlight and Vines, for which he won the World Fantasy Award. Among de Lint's many other novels are Mulengro, Into the Green, and The Little Country.
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