 | BIG MACHINERicky Rice is a middle-aged hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. The sole survivor of a suicide cult, he spends his days scraping by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York. Until one day a letter arrives, reminding him of a vow he once made and summoning him to Vermont's remote Northeast Kingdom to fulfill it. There, Ricky is inducted into a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom have at some point in their wasted lives heard the Voice: a murmur on the wind, a disembodied shout, a whisper in an empty room. All these may or may not have been messages from God. Their mission is to find the Voice—and figure out what it wants. More |
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 | Big Machine Accolades American Book Award 2010 Shirley Jackson Award 2009 - Best Novel 10 Best Book of 2009 — Publisher's Weekly Favorite Fiction of 2009 — Chicago Tribune Best Science Fiction of 2009 — LA Times Best Sci Fi & Fantasy — Washington Post Most Valuable Novel of 2009 — The Nation |
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