Dan Stout writes about fever dreams and half-glimpsed shapes in the shadows. His fiction draws on travels throughout Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Rim as well as an employment history spanning everything from subpoena server to assistant well driller. Dan's stories have appeared in publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Nature, and Intergalactic Medicine Show.
Praise for Titanshade
"Take a little Mickey Spillane, some Dashiell Hammett, a bit of
Raymond Chandler, and mix it with Phillip K. Dick's Blade
Runner; add a taste of C. J. Box, and Craig Johnson, and you've
got a masterpiece of a first novel. I hate to call any novel a
work of genius, but Stout's Titanshade taps all the right
keys." —W. Michael Gear, New York Times bestselling
author
"Debut author Stout combines a pitch-perfect noir
tone and a richly detailed world full of human, amphibian, and
less-identifiable characters in this instantly gripping fantastical
mystery.... Stout handles this complex mystery with ease,
invoking the best elements of classic noir mysteries, while
fearlessly making this world, with its retro style and multilayered
mythology, all his own." —Publishers Weekly (starred)
"Titanshade is entirely unique: it’s a gritty noir murder
mystery on an alien world with multiple species, a strange form of
sorcery, a powerful religion, and large-scale political intrigue.
And it’s set in the 1970s, with pay phones, 8-track tapes, racial
tensions, and arguments about disco music. What’s amazing is how
good it is at being all of these: the genuinely compelling
mystery lives in a hugely original sf world and an immersive
historical milieu." —ALA Booklist (starred)
“Dan Stout’s debut novel is flawless. Titanshade is set
in an original, gritty fantasy world, like enough to ours to take
you by the throat as the detective noir plot roars along, yet
filled with intriguing other beings and moments of remarkable
magic. Highly recommended.” —Julie E. Czerneda, author of The
Gossamer Mage
"If you like rollicking detective stories with some
action-adventure and alien culture to overlay the mystery, you
should give this one a look. I can almost guarantee it won't be
what you expect." —SFRevu
"All in all, the book grows on the reader, slowly at first, but
then with the speed of a rabid kudzu vine egged on by
supervillainess Poison Ivy. By the end of the
book Titanshade satisfies well enough to make you
start over at the beginning to see what you missed." —New York
Journal of Books
"Titanshade was a wonderful blend of magical realism,
police procedural, and thriller." —Genre Minx
"This is a solid debut, giving us a fascinating new world,
some fun characters who feel real, and a story which, I guarantee
will keep you turning pages into the wee hours." —Sci-Fi and
Fantasy Reviews
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