{"product_id":"ghostlands-paperback","title":"Ghostlands - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Fox\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMushrooming Time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancesco Helios, a groundskeeper in New Shining Capital, runs a \"mower,\" a seventy-ton leveling machine that keeps the Lawn free of the bloom of mushrooming monuments. Like an unruly yard, structures shove their way up through the turf: the obelisk of the Washerman Monument, the temple of \"Old Frog Face,\" and a thousand other stubborn relics from a half-recollected past that refuse to stay mowed down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Francesco is mowing, a ghostly woman appears on the Lawn. Unlike other human ghosts reborn from the past, the woman recognizes Francesco. She calls him by a name he doesn't recognize, but that resonates. Timebreaker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon Francecso is catapulted to dockyards cluttered with mushrooming battleships and across the country to plains of ghostly buffalo, all with a madman on his trail who seeks to transform Francesco into a \"grubber,\" dedicated to the eradication of CAHSPEI--Chronologically Anomalous Human-Seeming Phenomenon (Emergent-Insubstantial)--that is, to the murder of human ghosts from the past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet if the Timebreaker is real--and he is the one-- then maybe even a lowly groundskeeper can save his family from ruin, himself from oblivion--and, in the process, wrench humanity from the suicidal rubber room of rebounding time his mushroom-haunted world has become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2026 Ark Prize for best novel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Fox's\u003c\/b\u003e novel, \u003ci\u003eFat White Vampire Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected for the Lord Ruthven Award for Best Vampire Novel and his novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Humor Man, or, Calorie 3501\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected by \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e magazine as one of the Ten Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of the Year. Fox has taught children's theater, managed a statewide food assistance program, run a campaign against celebratory gunfire, and briefly sold Saturn cars. He currently lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and three sons while working for a federal law enforcement agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47878758301750,"sku":"9798901160473","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/4569\/8614\/files\/02jAHwTzT_9798901160473.webp?v=1790383845","url":"https:\/\/outerrealmbooksbeyond.com\/products\/ghostlands-paperback","provider":"Outer Realm Books \u0026 Beyond","version":"1.0","type":"link"}