the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Southern Book Prize, the Indies Choice Book Award, and was nominated for or won prizes in France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The follow-up, Lightning Men, was named one of the Top Ten Crime Novels of 2017 by The New York Times and was shortlisted for a CWA Dagger Award. His debut, The Last Town on Earth, set during the 1918 flu pandemic, was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA Today and was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction. He lives in Atlanta.
Mullen's new novel is Blind Spots.
At CrimeReads the author tagged eight favorite crime novels that blur the line into SciFi, including:
Cloud Atlas by David MitchellRead about the other entries on the list.
Okay, this one doesn’t so much combine crime and SF as add them, along with several other genres, into a kaleidoscopic storytelling structure.Mitchell’s magnum opus is comprised of six stories, all set in a different time period and written in a different style, each one a fast-paced tale that comments on power and subjugation. One story is an Erin Brokovich-like environmental thriller in which a journalist exposes wrongdoing and courts danger as a result; another, set in a futuristic city, features a protagonist who’s been genetically designed to be a servant, and whose attempt to break free of her proscribed role risks bringing the whole society down.
Cloud Atlas is among C.A. Davids's top ten world-spanning novels, Sjón's ten top artificial humans in fiction, Naomi Klein's six favorite books, Jeff Somers's seven novels with chronologies that will break you, Christopher Priest’s top five science-fiction books that make use of music, Patrick Hemstreet's five top books for the psychonaut and the six books that changed Maile Meloy's idea of what’s possible in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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