Mystery Hill

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From the astonishing imagination of Alex Mystery Hill, a gonzo SF novella in the tradition of Henry Kuttner and Paul Di Filippo . . . REVEIWS Irvine’s novels have been described “Wonderful” – Eric Brown “Imbued with the magic of life.” – Jeffrey Ford “Highly enjoyable and gut-smart” – Alvaro Zinos-Amaro SUMMARY In his three decades of running Mystery Hill, a roadside attraction where water famously flows upwards, Vietnam veteran Ken Kassarjian believes he's seen it conspiracy theorists who think he's a shape-shifting alien, crusading debunkers who think he's a fraud, stoned local teenagers who plague his minigolf course after hours. And as if the business of operating a tourist trap isn't weird enough, there are the strange critters running around in the woods, and the malevolent doings of the neighbours, the Boswells, Boozy by name and decidedly boozy by nature. Their latest alien tea, anyone? Whatever precarious equilibrium Ken might have found in his oasis of gravitational eccentricity goes out the window with the appearance of Fara Oussemitski, a physics professor with her own ideas about what makes Mystery Hill tick. When she turns up one morning with a van full of instruments, Ken starts to discover that not only is Mystery Hill stranger than he had imagined, it's stranger than he could have imagined. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alex Irvine's most recent novels are Buyout, The Narrows, Exiles, The Seal of Karga Kul, and the novelization of The Adventures of Tintin. He also wrote the social RPG/strategy game Avengers Alliance. His comics work includes Iron Rapture, Daredevil Noir, and Hellstorm, Son of Equinox for Marvel, and the Vertigo Encyclopedia for DC. His short fiction is collected in Unintended Consequences and Pictures from an Expedition. Alex lives in Maine.