Debut novelist Adam Christopher sold two novels to Angry Robot.
Announcing the deal, Angry Robot says Christopher, a British-based New Zealander, “is well-known to many at the heart of the British science fiction community through his strong presence on Twitter, under the nickname @ghostfinder. It was through reading his posts that AR first became aware of him. When we found out he had ambitions to have his debut full-length novels see print we dove at the chance to check them out.”
The first book, Empire State, will appear in January 2012. The book is “a story of superheroes, and a city divided in two. Detective Rad Bradbury picks up the trail of a murderer, only to discover that the world he has always known is a pocket universe, recently brought into existence by an explosion of phenomenal power. With a superhero on his tail he crosses into a city that bears a remarkable resemblance to his own—a city called New York. There he uncovers a deadly threat to the Empire State, and finds that the future of both realities are at stake.”
The second book, Seven Wonders (another superhero-themed fantasy) will appear late in 2012.