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Part Jessica Jones, part China Miéville, (trans. by Jeffrey Zuckerman) is one of Antoine Volodine’s craziest, longest, and most compelling books to date. And you can win a copy simply by entering the GoodReads contest below.

The most patently sci-fi work of Antoine VolodineÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s to be translated into English, Radiant Terminus takes place in a Tarkovskian landscape after the fall of the Second Soviet Union. Most of humanity has been destroyed thanks to a number of nuclear meltdowns, but a few communes remain, including one run by Solovyei, a psychotic father with the ability to invade peopleÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s dreamsÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”including those of his daughtersÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”and torment them for thousands of years.

When a group of damaged individuals seek safety from this nuclear winter in SolovyeiÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s commune, a plot develops to overthrow him, end his reign of mental abuse, and restore humanity.

Fantastical, unsettling, and occasionally funny, Radiant Terminus is a key entry in VolodineÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s epic literary project thatÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”with its broad landscape, ambitious vision, and interlocking characters and ideasÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”calls to mind the best of David Mitchell.