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Wild Massive

Scotto Moore

Wild Massive

Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty.

Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world.

Carissa loves her elevator. Up and down she goes, content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits out, as long as it means she doesn’t have to speak to another living person.

But when a mysterious shapeshifter from an ambiguous world lands on top of her elevator, intent on stopping a plot to annihilate hundreds of floors, Carissa finds herself stepping out of her comfort zone. She is forced to flee into the Wild Massive network of theme parks in the Building, where technology, sorcery, and elaborate media tie-ins combine to form impossible ride experiences, where every guest is a VIP, the roller coasters are frequently safe, and if you don’t have a valid day pass, the automated defense lasers will escort you from being alive.

Wild Massive: The #1 destination for interdimensional war.
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“This is a stand-alone novel with material enough for six...By the halfway point, it had blown my mind twice... an audacious, genre-bending whirlwind.” —The New York Times on Battle of the Linguist Mages

Also Available by Scotto Moore:

Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You

Battle of the Linguist Mages

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Hardcover

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Hardcover
On Sale: 02/07/2023
ISBN: 9781250767745
ISBN10: 1250767741
5.80 x 8.60 inches , 496 Pages

e-Book

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e-Book
ISBN: 9781250767738
ISBN10: 1250767733
0.00 x 0.00 inches , 496 Pages

Trade Paperback

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Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781250767752
ISBN10: 125076775X
5.38 x 8.25 inches , 496 Pages

About the Author

SCOTTO MOORE is a Seattle playwright, whose works include the black comedy H.P. Lovecraft: Stand-up Comedian!, the sci-fi adventures Duel of the Linguist Mages and interlace...

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REVIEWS

An Amazon Editor's Pick!

“Throughout this sprawling, ambitious romp, Moore draws from numerous perspectives and gleefully embraces the inherent absurdity of both setting and premise... Readers are in for a rollicking trip through the fun house.” —Publishers Weekly

Praise for Battle of the Linguist Mages

“By the halfway point, it had blown my mind twice and accumulated such cavalcades of incident that I couldn’t fathom where it had left to go — but it found places, and it went there.” —The New York Times

“It reads like Snow Crash had a dance-off with Gideon the Ninth, in a world where language isn't a virus from outer space, it's a goddamn alien invasion.” —Charles Stross

"A frenetic romp... a whole lot of fun... Glitter-bombed popcorn fiction at its finest." —Kirkus STARRED REVIEW

"A roller coaster of weird in this wildly entertaining gonzo adventure... Readers will love it as much for the outlandish ideas as for the narrative complexity and sense of fun." —Publishers Weekly


Praise for Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You

“Scotto Moore understands a key truth about Ziggy Stardust: Rock and roll messiahs are really fucking scary.” —Kieron Gillen

“Absolutely stunning. A fast-paced, psychedelic blur of music, tech, and things way beyond either. I picked it up, and it simply would not let me go until the final page was read.” —Ramez Naam

“The ride is a fun one and the soundtrack is killer.” —Locus