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The Spirit Phone
The Spirit Phone | Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe
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"Startlingly original and strangely engrossing… We are no doubt witness to a new talent in the speculative fiction genre…” —Rex Pickett, author of Sideways Aleister Crowley and Nikola Tesla confront the enigma of Thomas Edison's new invention: a phone to communicate with the dead. It is August 1899, and Thomas Edison proclaims his most amazing invention yet: the Spirit Phone Model SP-1. At nearly the same time, a cocksure young mage named Aleister Crowley inexplicably teleports into the home of Edison’s archrival, renowned inventor Nikola Tesla. As insanity and suicide multiply among spirit phone users, Crowley and Tesla combine their respective skills in “magick” and technology to investigate the device’s actual origin and ultimate purpose. Embarking upon an adventure of astral travel, demonic invocations, and high-speed airship journeys, they are soon embroiled in a desperate race to stop the spirit phone's use by an unknown adversary to inaugurate a hell on earth from which none shall escape.
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Looking spooky in the full moon, this is the debut alt history/fantasy by Arthur Shattuck O‘Keefe. O‘Keefe starts from the true story that Thomas Edison publicly stated his intent to build a device that would allow us to speak with the dead. Well written, with plenty of twists, though some seem a bit forced. Loved the characters, the dialog, & the author's sense of humor.

ARC review. Book due 11/15

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