For Immediate Release
October 5, 2008

Norilana Books is proud to present Leaving Fortusa by John Grant.

A dystopian masterpiece by the Hugo, Locus, Chesley, and World Fantasy Award-winning author . . .

An indispensable achievement of stunning prognostication in these politically charged times . . .


Leaving Fortusa by John Grant

"An ambitious and daring book!"
­Charles A. Tan, Bibliophile Stalker

"5/5 stars for sheerly amazing writing!"
­Someone's Read It Already

A disabled US veteran from Iraq finds in Scotland a bizarrely distorted form of Fairyland and realizes he has lost his own country. A New Yorker learns how to discard the sad times from his life as around him society crumbles. A dream-research laboratory uncovers the true origin of our reality, a secret too dangerous to reveal . . .

The powerhouse dystopian novel by a master of fantastic literature.

Two children are taught to suppress their imagination. Armies travel back in time to conquer the worlds of the past, there to hold gladiatorial circuses. A man suffers the death penalty over and over for everyone else’s murders, so the victims’ families may have "closure" . . .

Ten episodes from a horrifying future, with the Decline and Fall of the American Empire as their backdrop.

Two karmic tempters dance through myriad different universes in search of ways to engineer the downfall of their enemies here. A rusted ferris wheel standing tall above the desert is a locus for barbarous religious executions. An old woman recalls her childhood loss of innocence about the world in which she lives . . .

In the great If This Goes On tradition, an impassioned assault on the seeds of destruction sown within our society. Searing prose conjures a nightmare vision you will never be able to forget.

A loner foraging in the graveyard of our civilization comes across what may be all that's left of human literature . . .

One of the most astonishing novels of the new century’s first decade, Leaving Fortusa is also one of its most urgent.

John Grant is author of some seventy books, of which about twenty-five are fiction, including novels such as The World, Albion, The Hundredfold Problem, The Far-Enough Window, and The Dragons Of Manhattan. His "book-length fiction" Dragonhenge, illustrated by Bob Eggleton, was shortlisted for a Hugo Award in 2003; its successor was The Stardragons. His first story collection, Take No Prisoners, appeared in 2004.

He is editor of New Writings In The Fantastic and co-editor with John Clute of The Encyclopedia Of Fantasy, and wrote in their entirety all three editions of The Encyclopedia Of Walt Disney's Animated Characters; both encyclopedias are standard reference works in their field. Among his latest nonfictions have been Discarded Science and Corrupted Science; he is currently working on their companion volume, Bogus Science, on a book about film noir, and on "a cute rhyming book for kids about a velociraptor."

As John Grant he has received two Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a number of other international literary awards. Under his real name, Paul Barnett, he has written the space operas Strider's Galaxy and Strider's Universe, and for a number of years ran the world-famous fantasy-artbook imprint Paper Tiger, for this work earning a Chesley Award and a nomination for the World Fantasy Award. He is currently Consultant Editor to the publisher AAPPL (Artists' & Photographers' Press Ltd.).

 
Official website: http://www.johngrantpaulbarnett.com