By Kathe Koja
I love, love, love book playlists. Playlists are vibe, they’re ambience, they give us a way into the book’s heart before we even start reading.
The music, the hum, the sounds of Dark Matter—it pulses and spools, throbs like a heart or a bassline in the club, makes ultimatums and offers forgiveness, confronts what is and gazes forward to what will be. As I wrote it, I let that music choose itself, hours of it, techno and strange old pop romance and dark ambient and classical and, and . . . and I found there were songs I came back to again and again.
What’s Dark Matter about? Listen.
Big Man – Thee Conductor w/ Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Hard Dreams – Gesaffelstein
Army of Me – Björk
Transition – Underground Resistance
Dark Was the Night – Kronos Quartet
Cypriol – Jónsi
Time Will Tell – Blood Orange
Impermanence – Valesuchi
Low – R.E.M.
Aftermath – Tricky
Agnus Dei – Rufus Wainwright
And throughout, below, beside, all the sounds that are where you are, right this minute
https://earth.fm/earth-stories/soundscape-acoustic-ecology/
DARK MATTER
Kathe Koja
Speculative Fiction | LGBTQ
BOOK PAGE: Dark Matter – Meerkat Press
SUMMARY:
When the world ends, chaos begins–
–for feral Bunny Graves, playing life like a high-stakes game, where the only way to win is to smash the board to bits–
–for Max Caspar and Charmskool the scholar, chasing ancient myth all the way to the real world–
–and for Ari Regon, caught between dangerous jealousy and passionate love, corporate war and ambition so intense that failure is death, making the party to end all parties, a party that never ends.
Dark times.
Dark dreams.
DARK MATTER
The third and final book in the DARK FACTORY series.
BUY LINKS: Meerkat Press | Bookshop.org | Amazon
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Kathe Koja’s books include The Cipher, Skin, straydog, Buddha Boy, Velocities: Stories, Under the Poppy, and the Dark Factory trilogy, Dark Factory, Dark Park, and Dark Matter. Her work has won awards, including the Stoker, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the ASPCA’s Henry Bergh Award. She also creates and produces live and online experiences that bring the story directly to you. Find her at kathekoja.com and on IG, FB and Bluesky.
GIVEAWAY: $25 Meerkat Press Giftcard
