Radiomen
First edition
AuthorEleanor Lerman
Cover artistLon Kirschner
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
Published2015
PublisherPermanent Press

Radiomen is an American science fiction novel by Eleanor Lerman.[1]

Plot

Laurie Perzin is a middle-aged bartender in Queens that works nights at Kennedy airport. She lives an unremarkable life, having no close family and a childhood memory of a mysterious encounter with "the radioman." When she was six she met a shadowy figure when listening to her uncle’s radio. She spends years pretending the meeting was a dream and it sets off a sequence of events that pull her into the company of a psychic, a radio host, a strange dog and the leader of a religious cult that believes aliens, including the radioman, are destined to bring humans to enlightenment.

Awards

The novel was the winner of the 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Kirkus Reviews
  2. ↑ "John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2016". Locus. Retrieved 2016-07-06 – via Science Fiction Awards Database.


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