Astronomy

At the end of World War II, an American task force investigates a Nazi

project to reanimate the dead and summon strange monsters from other

dimensions. Deranged by their own studies, the Nazi scientists have been

difficult to find, much less talk to. Only the linguist Susan Gilbert has

had any luck getting their cooperation. When it turns out that the biggest,

most horrific experiment of them all has yet to be completed, she ends up

leading the effort to save the world. But she's not a mad genius, not a

secret agent, and not even in the military, and the only man with the

knowledge to help her succeed is her own worst enemy, a remorseless,

manipulative villain hunted by the Allies, the Nazis, and supernatural

monsters alike.

A dark fantasy based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft, *Astronomy* is

Richard Wadholm's debut novel. Richard's fiction has been published several

times in *Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine*, and his story

"Green Tea," which appeared in Asimov's Year's Best anthology, was nominated

for a Theodore Sturgeon Award.