2022 Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation, Best Novel
**In this dazzling new novel evoking Westerns, surrealism, epic fantasy, mythology, and circus extravaganzas, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar (Central Station) has created an incomparable dreamscape of dark comedy, heartbreak, hope, and adventure. Chronicling a lone man s quest in parallel worlds, The Escapement offers the archetypal darkness of Stephen King s The Gunslinger *within the dark whimsy of a child s imagination.
Comic, tragic, and utterly magnificent.
Samantha Shannon, author of* The Priory of the Orange Tree
A wild, decadent hybrid of The Dark Tower and Carnivale*.
Catherynne M. Valente, author of* Deathless**
Into the reality called the Escapement rides the Stranger, a lone gunman on a quest to rescue his son from a parallel world. But it is too easy to get lost on a shifting landscape full of dangerous versions of