“A tiny, jeweled puzzle-box of a book, strangely but entertainingly crossing Kafka with Philip K. Dick to make something quite new.”
—Tad Williams, author of the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series
“Dystopian fiction at its most fragmented, wondrous and irrevocably humane. Doubinsky’s prose is lean, mean and often hilarious in the melancholy way of a Godard hero unable to escape his past no matter how fast he hurtles toward a Burroughsian future.”
—J.S. Breukelaar, author of American Monster and Aletheia
“Master social commentator Seb Doubinsky pulls us further into his near-future/probably-now European continent . . . in his always intense, sometimes horrifying, and often quite tragic exploration of a doomed race dancing toward midnight, smiles fixed and glasses raised.”
—T.E. Grau, author of I Am The River and The Nameless Dark
“The tense, sparse prose of this novella . . . matches its strong themes of loneliness, paranoia, and the search for identity in a world of deception.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Seb Doubinsky’s always been a critique of modern politics and the tyrannical fallacies of consumerism. Missing Signal is another addition to that nuanced, but powerful legacy as it’s a novel about being told what to do and who to believe, which doesn’t lead to any satisfying answers if you don’t proactively choose your own path through a maze of make believes and misinformation.”
—Benoit Lelievre, Dead End Follies
“Beneath the entertaining wrapper of science fiction, Missing Signal is a masterfully written work, both provocative and rewarding.”
—Susan Waggoner, Foreword Reviews
“I’m delighted to have discovered an exciting new voice in Seb Doubinsky’s unusual novella . . . which offers a disturbing glimpse into a dystopian city-state future which reflects, albeit in an exaggerated way, so much of all that is disturbing in our 21st century world.”
—Linda Hepworth, Nudge-Books Magazine (5 stars)
“Crisp chapters cartwheel you in an incredible odyssey that gets wilder and weirder as it possesses you . . . Once you open the book, you are committed. No hard work, just a heart-thud moment, electricity, and you’re hooked. In its tiny chapters pulsing with voltage, the narrative leaves nothing short.”
—Eugen Bacon, Breach Magazine