“Fletcher populated the landscape with an array of mental disorders, turning a well-thumbed psychiatric manual into a dramatis personae…The dystopia and its victims never quite collapse under the weight of the horror, and their perseverance encourages the readers to endure the grimness until the thought-provoking conclusion.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) on BEYOND REDEMPTION Highly recommended.” - Anthony Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of Blood Song, on BEYOND REDEMPTION

An alarming, original and compulsive tale laced with a blackly comic sensibility. Fletcher’s Beyond Redemption is often as nightmarish as it is fascinating. “Set in a world where madness equates to power, Michael R. The fate of the Geisteskranken is to inevitably find oneself in the Afterdeath. Because as the delusions become more powerful, the also become harder to control. Trouble is, there are many who would see a god in their thrall, including the High Priest’s own doppelgangers, a Slaver no one can resist, and three slaves led by possibly the only sane man left.Īs these forces converge on the boy, there’s one more obstacle: time is running out. For the High Priest Konig, that means creating order out of the chaos in his city-state, leading his believers to focus on one thing: helping a young man, Morgen, ascend to become a god. Sustained by their own belief-and the beliefs of those around them-they can manipulate their surroundings.

Violent and dark, the world is filled with the Geisteskranken-men and women whose delusions manifest.

When belief defines reality, those with the strongest convictions-the crazy, the obsessive, the delusional-have the power to shape the world.Īnd someone is just mad enough to believe he can create a god. and the fulfillment of humanity’s desires may well prove to be its undoing. Brett, and Neil Gaiman conjures a gritty mind-bending fantasy, set in a world where delusion becomes reality. A darkly imaginative writer in the tradition of Joe Abercrombie, Peter V.

Beyond redemption by michael r fletcher