Why we’re excited
Grunt's father, a writer, has disappeared, and Grunt thinks the old man hid clues in his stories. The trail runs through a pulp magazine serial about Homestead1, a colony of beautiful, fit people whose children learn to kill Earthlings on school trips. When one of those children goes missing, the colony starts to crack.
Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club, has never written a straight science fiction novel before, so this is a genuine first. Expect satire rather than space opera. Fans of his transgressive streak, and readers who grew up on yellowing sci-fi paperbacks, are the natural audience.
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What to know about Galleria
We have reviewed 2 of Chuck Palahniuk’s books, with an average score of 3.5 out of 5. The one we rated highest is Shock Induction (4★); the most recent is Silent Nightmares.
From the publisher
Chuck Palahniuk's first forray into science fiction, following a young man searching through old scifi pulp magazines for clues to find the father who disappeared into space years ago.
On Earth, a young man named Grunt is searching for his father, a writer it seems has vanished off the face of the planet. But Grunt is convinced his father left behind clues in his writing. In a pulp magazine called Rockets Ho!!, Grunt discovers a curious series--Welcome2 Homestead1--that is out of this world, but something about it hits very close to home. Maybe Grunt has always been destined for bigger things.
Homestead1 is perfect, where everyone is beautiful, fit, and smart. Where Bradbury9 and Ursula6 do calisthenics by the Fountain of Authors and children hop on the bus for field trips back to the home planet, gleefully learning to kill Earthlings. But when Tomisina8 goes missing on one of the field trips, Homestead1's facade begins to crack.
As Grunt creeps ever closer to finding his dad, and the leaders of Homestead1 frantically search for their missing colonist, things take a turn revealing that sometimes the facts are stranger than fiction.
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We haven’t read Galleria yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
