EGYPTIAN MOTHERLODE
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DAVID SANDNER & JACOB WEISMAN
The Prophet is one of a very few musicians with the ability to warp reality through his music. His dreams bring him to other realms, to places he should not go, into contact with entities with the power to threaten the existence of our world.
Egyptian Motherlode is a wild ride through American popular music of the 20th century, from Jazz to Blues, from Psychedelic Rock to Funk and beyond, following The Prophet’s life and transformations—and all the people: family, friends, bandmates, and enemies he changes along the way—on the strangest musical journey of all.
Also available from David Sandner & Jacob Weisman:
Mingus Fingers
Hellhounds
- October 29, 2024 978-1-958880-21-0
- Cover art by Aleksey Litvishkov
- Trade paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 248 pgs
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The Prophet is one of a very few musicians with the ability to warp reality through his music. His dreams bring him to other realms, to places he should not go, into contact with entities with the power to threaten the existence of our world.
Egyptian Motherlode is a wild ride through American popular music of the 20th century, from Jazz to Blues, from Psychedelic Rock to Funk and beyond, following The Prophet’s life and transformations—and all the people: family, friends, bandmates, and enemies he changes along the way—on the strangest musical journey of all.
Also available from David Sandner & Jacob Weisman:
Mingus Fingers
Hellhounds
“In its wildest moments, Egyptian Motherlode reads like an apocalyptic mixup of Tananarive Due and Robert Anton Wilson. The research is impeccable, and the clear-eyed, revisionist view of the sixties is most welcome.”
— Lewis Shiner, author of Glimpses and Outside the Gates of Eden
“Egyptian Motherlode is beautiful and loud. Psychedelic and surreal. It flows through the landscape of twentieth century music like the river of the dead, summoning ancient gods and chasing down lost volumes of occult knowledge, until every note is perfect, and we’re all singing along at full volume. This book has soul."
— Josh Rountree, author of The Legend of Charlie Fish
"Egyptian Motherlode is a psychedelic trip through musical history, where reality twists itself to the lives and dreams of the musicians who wove blues, jazz, rock, and funk into our world's fabric."
— Jason Sanford, author of Plague Birds, Nebula and PKD Award finalist
"With Egyptian Motherlode, Sandner and Weisman lay out a mosaic that is two parts music, three parts magic and one part charming mythological romp across time. Fans of literary, musical fantasy will be delighted."
— Ken Scholes, author of Long Walks, Last Flights, and the Psalms of Isaak series
"A new mythology for the music of the 20th century interwoven with science fiction, fantasy, fantastic flashes of history. All it needs is an interactive ebook version with a playlist and hyperlinks to background materials to blow the minds of the musicologists of the future."
— Ernest Hogan, author of Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's Song and Locus-award-nominee Cortez on Jupiter
"There is a comment about this book that it resembles some of the work of Robert Anton Wilson. I can see the similarity. . . . The story involves a musician known as the Prophet, whose music actually does create a kind of metaphysical gateway to other realities, usually expressed to him through dreams, and sometimes very frightening ones. The narrator, his brother, experiences a kind of transformation which he believes to be an hallucination. The authors’ affection for the musicians involved, both real and imagined, is obvious."
— Critical Mass
"David Sandner & Jacob Weisman blend their voices beautifully into an organic whole that reminds me of the tonality of John Kessel or Karen Joy Fowler."
— Locus
Jacob Weisman is the publisher at Tachyon Publications, which he founded in 1995. He is a World Fantasy Award winner for the anthology The New Voices of Fantasy, which he co-edited with Peter S. Beagle, and is the series editor of Tachyon’s critically acclaimed novella line, including the Hugo Award–winning The Emperor’s Soul, by Brandon Sanderson, and the Nebula and Shirley Jackson award–winning We Are All Completely Fine, by Daryl Gregory. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Realms of Fantasy, The Louisville Courier-Journal, The Seattle Weekly, and The Cooper Point Journal.
— Lewis Shiner, author of Glimpses and Outside the Gates of Eden
“Egyptian Motherlode is beautiful and loud. Psychedelic and surreal. It flows through the landscape of twentieth century music like the river of the dead, summoning ancient gods and chasing down lost volumes of occult knowledge, until every note is perfect, and we’re all singing along at full volume. This book has soul."
— Josh Rountree, author of The Legend of Charlie Fish
"Egyptian Motherlode is a psychedelic trip through musical history, where reality twists itself to the lives and dreams of the musicians who wove blues, jazz, rock, and funk into our world's fabric."
— Jason Sanford, author of Plague Birds, Nebula and PKD Award finalist
"With Egyptian Motherlode, Sandner and Weisman lay out a mosaic that is two parts music, three parts magic and one part charming mythological romp across time. Fans of literary, musical fantasy will be delighted."
— Ken Scholes, author of Long Walks, Last Flights, and the Psalms of Isaak series
"A new mythology for the music of the 20th century interwoven with science fiction, fantasy, fantastic flashes of history. All it needs is an interactive ebook version with a playlist and hyperlinks to background materials to blow the minds of the musicologists of the future."
— Ernest Hogan, author of Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's Song and Locus-award-nominee Cortez on Jupiter
"There is a comment about this book that it resembles some of the work of Robert Anton Wilson. I can see the similarity. . . . The story involves a musician known as the Prophet, whose music actually does create a kind of metaphysical gateway to other realities, usually expressed to him through dreams, and sometimes very frightening ones. The narrator, his brother, experiences a kind of transformation which he believes to be an hallucination. The authors’ affection for the musicians involved, both real and imagined, is obvious."
— Critical Mass
"David Sandner & Jacob Weisman blend their voices beautifully into an organic whole that reminds me of the tonality of John Kessel or Karen Joy Fowler."
— Locus
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jacob Weisman is the publisher at Tachyon Publications, which he founded in 1995. He is a World Fantasy Award winner for the anthology The New Voices of Fantasy, which he co-edited with Peter S. Beagle, and is the series editor of Tachyon’s critically acclaimed novella line, including the Hugo Award–winning The Emperor’s Soul, by Brandon Sanderson, and the Nebula and Shirley Jackson award–winning We Are All Completely Fine, by Daryl Gregory. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Realms of Fantasy, The Louisville Courier-Journal, The Seattle Weekly, and The Cooper Point Journal.