Agents of Dreamland

Written by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Narrated by Danny Campbell and Chelsea Stephens

A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman.

In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible-the Children of the Next Level-and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming and they will help to usher it in.

A day after the events at the ranch house which disturbed the Signalman so deeply that he and his government sought out help from 'other' sources, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory abruptly loses contact with NASA's interplanetary probe New Horizons. Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact.

And a woman floating outside of time looks to the future and the past for answers to what can save humanity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Sep 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781705246962

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Caitlín R. Kiernan is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award. Their novels include The Red Tree and The Drowning Girl, and their prolific short fiction has been collected in numerous volumes, including The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories, The Dinosaur Tourist, and Houses Under the Sea. Kiernan is also a vertebrate paleontologist and currently a research associate at the Alabama Museum of Natural History in Tuscaloosa.  

Reviews for Agents of Dreamland

[NicholaAnkeMillen · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Amazing voice actors. Complex story. I feel very I sure about what I just read.

[Oso Isko · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was solid weird/Lovecraftian fiction, mixed with X-Files esque conspiracy and New Age Apocalyptic Christianity. Something not all that new, but pulled off excellently by Kiernan. It was built on an almost non-existent structure, with hints at a greater story, but was more of a character study of the three POVs. This is a work of Kiernan though, so that's to be expected. The voice of the characters were really good, both in the wording by the author and the reading by the audio narrators.