Excerpt from Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

This creates not so much a black hole as what scientists soon la- bel a "hush vortex," a misnomer since even a hush has a kind of auditory presence that collapses within the buildings' airspace. But as the white brother and his black sister from Los Angeles make the long advance in their silver Camry to their mother in Michigan, like Traci and Linda, like Justin and the Pattersons, like the Hartmans and Ortizes and Nours and Ramseys and the hundreds and then thousands and then tens of thousands of others, they're drawn to the vortex of the Badlands hush, silence descending on them with the horizon.

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