Godspeed, is the forthcoming novel by American novelist Will Christopher Baer

Will Christopher Baer

Will Christopher Baer is an American author of noir fiction, often delving into sex, violence, mystery and erotica. Currently published works include Kiss Me, Judas, Penny Dreadful and Hell's Half Acre, all of which have since been published in the single volume Phineas Poe...

. There is currently no set publication date.

Plot summary

According to Milton, heaven and hell are but a hand's breadth apart. In Godspeed, there is no heaven or hell. There is only "the presidio," a lawless noir purgatory populated by fugitive souls, fallen angels, demon children, immortals, and the undead. Moving among them is a complicated hero in Ryder Fell.mercenary thief, repentant womanizer, and sometime savior of lost children--afflicted with the "godspeed," a dizzying array of paranormal talents he can neither control or explain. The worst of these are nightmare visions of black doors All hell breaks loose when an exiled undead soul, in the body of a young girl, borrows the godspeed from Ryder and plunges through the wrong door...Milton had one thing right--the next world is a heartbeat away from this one, an easy jump for the lucky few who know how to secure passage. For the rest of us, the real hell is in the journey.

Major themes

"GODSPEED is my ongoing obsession and freefalling death dream. Godspeed is my personal house of leaves, ever expanding, bigger inside than out and filled with private horrors. In Godspeed, the demons lurk in unlikely hiding places--a shard of light, a handful of dust, a broken tooth. The power to see and access the dread doors passes from one character to another like plague. Godspeed is an apocalyptic noir, a horror quest for salvation I expect will run past a thousand pages, over the course of several books. I'll count myself lucky to survive the first installment and begin the second. I am working on Godspeed even now. And given two minutes, two days, two years more, I will doubtless still be working on it."
--WILL CHRISTOPHER BAER, 2006

External links

• Will Christopher Baer's Website
• The Velvet: A Community Dedicated to Will Christopher Baer, Craig Clevenger, and Stephen Graham Jones