Twilight of the Gods - by Kurt Baumeister (Hardcover)

About the Book

Twilight of the Gods is satire and alternate history on an operatic, cinematic, and cosmic scale, with a cast that transcends time and space.

Book Synopsis

National Book Award Nominated

This is not your comic book trickster.

Kurt Baumeister's Twilight of the Gods is satire and alternate history on an operatic, cinematic, and cosmic scale, with a cast that transcends time and space. The grinding of The Wheel of Fate is heard in Valhalla, as it is in Berlin and Boston.

Can Odin's many schemes be undone? Who can rewire the robotic nightmare of politics and write a brighter future for humanity? Only humanity's champion, the long misunderstood, supposed force of evil, Loki. This is a tale of fallen gods and failing humanity, of love lost and found, of parents and children, magic and sex, art and lies, good, evil, and the end of Fate.

This is the story of Loki. In his own words.

Review Quotes

"Timely, hilarious, and wildly original, Twilight of the Gods is unlike any book you've ever read and finds Baumeister at the top of his game."

- Jonathan Evison, author of Again and Again

"Twilight of the Gods is a deliciously unhinged look at the fall of gods, the rise of fascism, and free will. Baumeister's hilarious and wildly original Loki is a perfect guide on a 'getting the band back together' trip to the end-or perhaps beginning-of the world. Fabulous, trippy, and compulsively readable."

- Erika Swyler, author of We Lived on the Horizon

"Forget what you think you know about Norse gods and modern history. Irreverent, humorous, and packing a gut punch of reality, Baumeister has invoked perhaps one of the most memorable Lokis of the 21st century."

- Sequoia Nagamatsu, bestselling author of How High We Go in the Dark

"Big, sprawling, smart, epic in every sense of the word - Baumeister's Twilight of the Gods mines ancient ground and comes up with something wonderfully vivid and new to say about mythology and our modern era."

- Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You

"If the MCU-or, better, D'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths-was redrawn by Martin Amis, you'd arrive at Kurt Baumeister's Twilight of the Gods, a book that combines Nabokovian grace with sardonic, hardboiled snap. The result is a total delight." - Matthew Specktor, author of Always Crashing in the Same Car

"Baumeister's shape-shifting tale of gods and humans is delightfully wry and self-assured, a novel that warps received narratives and histories into gleaming new forms."

- Mark Doten, author of Trump Sky Alpha

"A seedy urban fantasy zigzagging through time that sets the Norse Gods loose in modern day Boston...Get ready for a propulsive myth-soaked noir."

- Iris Smyles, author of Droll Tales and Dating Tips for the Unemployed