Vespera Luminaire is a pioneering radio engineer at the BBC, blessed-or cursed-with synesthesia: she sees electromagnetic waves as ribbons of color and light. Alone in her laboratory one midnight, Vespera intercepts a signal that defies all science: the voices of the recently deceased.She learns a terrifying truth: consciousness survives death as electromagnetic energy, and a mysterious figure known only as The Collector is trapping these souls to power a dark machine called the Et...

A road trip through Steinbeck’s America—revisited, reimagined, and reinterpreted.Steinbeck’s Uneasy America is the first collection of critical scholarship devoted to Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck’s best-selling, late-career travel memoir. In 1960, Steinbeck was a renowned man of American letters. Many considered him America’s troubadour of ordinary people, the conscience of the country. But weakened by two sma...