Noise (23 page)
Authors: Darin Bradley
Tags: #Fiction - Espionage, #General, #Regression (Civilization), #Science Fiction, #Science Fiction - General, #Broadcasting, #Suspense, #Thrillers, #Fiction, #Science Fiction And Fantasy, #Thriller
I think the novel has a lot more to say about personal mythology and the mutability of self. We are each of us masterworks of fiction, nuanced by beautiful and terrible experience and powered by ambition. “Good,” “evil,” “right,” and “wrong” are just frame stories, and they’re rarely true.
S:
Then, I think it’s safe to say this: What you did was right.
D
ARIN
B
RADLEY
has taught courses on writing and literature at the University of North Texas, Furman University, and East Tennessee State University. He was also the founding fiction editor of Farrago’s Wainscot, an online magazine of experimental literature. He lives with his wife and their beagle, Lizzie. You can learn more at
www.darinbradley.com
.
Noise
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
A Spectra Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2010 by Darin Bradley
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Spectra, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
S
PECTRA
and the portrayal of a boxed “s” are trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bradley, Darin.
Noise / Darin Bradley.
p. cm.
“A Spectra trade paperback original” — T.p. verso.
eISBN: 978-0-345-52273-3
1. Broadcasting—Fiction. 2. Regression (Civilization)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3602.R342655N65 2010
813′.6—dc22
2010014910
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