{"id":4166,"date":"2016-04-02T09:27:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T14:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2016-04-02T09:27:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T14:27:32","slug":"slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom-now-an-international-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/02\/slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom-now-an-international-sensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom: now an international sensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I can’t guarantee what kind<\/em> of sensation that is; and if it’s the sensation of clammy tentacles slithering into your ear, well, I refuse to take responsibility. That’s on the record.<\/p>\n

But I just ran across this announcement<\/a> from the St. Martin’s Press catalog of upcoming titles. It delighted and surprised me, and I enjoyed that<\/em> sensation. So maybe you will too.<\/p>\n

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\nSLAVES OF THE SWITCHBOARD OF DOOM
by Bradley Schenck (Tor Books, October 2016) <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n

Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom<\/em><\/strong> is unlike anything else in genre fiction: a gonzo, totally bonkers vision of the future imagined in the 1939 World Fair\u2014a hilarious, illustrated retro-futurist adventure by artist and debut novelist Bradley W. Schenck. This is classic Flash Gordon meets the Keystone Cops, a gut-busting look at the World of Tomorrow, populated with dashing, jet-packed heroes, faithful robot sidekicks, mad scientists, plucky rocket engineers, sassy switchboard operators, space pirates, bubble-helmeted canine companions, and more.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Between you and me and the entire Internet, that’s not the release date;<\/em> and when I did a quick count I came up a little short on jet-packed heroes, plucky rocket engineers, and bubble-helmeted canine companions – though maybe my editor wants to talk to me about them. Could be a subtle message<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But despite those discrepancies, nice to see!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t guarantee what kind of sensation that is; and if it’s the sensation of clammy tentacles slithering over your palpitating flesh, well, I refuse to take responsibility. That’s on the record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}