Assault on Sunrise by Michael Shea

In a dystopian near-future, a vengeful Hollywood mogul unleashes deadly mechanical wasps on a small town in a twisted "live-action" film.

Less than a century from now, America has been brought to its knees by pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy. L.A. has become the worst of these urban nightmares. Curtis, Japh, and Jool, film extras who survived a deadly "live-action" shoot, have escaped to the peaceful town of Sunrise, California. But their survival cost Panoply Studios millions, and CEO Val Margolian wants revenge.

After several police are found dead in Sunrise, Margolian subjects the entire town to his invidious plan. He has created toxic, murderous wasp-like mechanical creatures to set upon the people, while his film crew captures the carnage in what promises to be the bloodiest "live-action" film yet. With their haven besieged, the former extras and their fellow townspeople must defeat the creatures and take back their freedom. Assault on Sunrise is a saga of courage and sacrifice in a world gone mad.

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Praise for this book

“The Extra starts out at a dead run and accelerates from there, effortlessly wrapping the reader into its tale of a gone-to-hell L.A. and a little band of gutsy starvelings with blood on their hands.” —Peter Straub, bestselling author of Mr. X on The Extra

“Horror, humor, action, pathos, bread, circuses, giant mechanical spiders--oh, hell, where can I buy a ticket?” —Sam Hamm, screenwriter of Tim Burton's Batman on The Extra

“It's a shrewd and more than slightly cynical piece of entertainment, as slickly made as any of the Hollywood productions it ostensibly satirizes. Trust me, you're gonna love it.” —Locus on The Extra

“Combines Hollywood satire, dystopian societies, and themes on media, social realism and class status for a darkly funny and action-packed futuristic thriller.” —Fantasy Literature on The Extra

“The Extra packs more violence, hilarity and speed-freak action in its throw-away asides than most science fiction books build an entire story around. This is a hot ticket.” —Patton Oswalt, the voice of Ratatouille on The Extra

“Michael Shea puts his people in the damndest nightmares. He puts you in there with them, and drives the whole lot of you through a delirium of breakneck action and mad invention--hilarity and Hellfire itself. Wanna be in the movies? Step inside . . .” —Stuart Gordon,writer/director of Re-Animator on The Extra

“All the hallmarks of Shea's much-lauded storytelling are here: strong, sinewy sentences--muscular metaphors--crafty characters immersed in action both horrific and hilarious.” —Marc Laidlaw, writer of the award-winning computer game "Half-Life" on The Extra

“Shea's prose is brutal and his mood savage in this horror show glimpse of things to come. The Extra presages a dystopia we Westerners can witness going up, brick by brick. Bare knuckles satire at its finest.” —Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence and other Stories on The Extra

“Michael Shea's The Extra offers intensity, great characters, action, satire that may well be prescient, fine writing, and intelligent nonstop entertainment. What do you want, dammit? This is the one!” —John Shirley, author of The Crow and Living Shadows on The Extra

About the Author

MICHAEL SHEA is the World Fantasy Award–winning author of Nifft the Lean and other novels. He has written many short stories for major fantasy and science fiction magazines.

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Title: Assault on Sunrise
Author(s): Michael Shea
Volume: 2
ISBN: 9781429988278
Copyright 2013
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Countries: United States, Canada | Learn more about available countries
Language: English
Format: mobi,ePub | Learn More about our supported formats

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