It's here: the first volume of Anders Nilsen's epic look at our collective 21st Century headspace: Tongues.  Like a skilled neurosurgeon, he peels back the conscious, subconscious and unconscious layers of our civilization, taking each layer then staining them with his creative intelligence and putting them under the microscope revealing a spectacular vision of their intermingling forms of mythography, history, speculative fiction and more, all entwined within the double-helix of love and war, and lays them bare for the reader's edification and private analysis (which has put us in mind of a modern La Divina Commedia di Dante – particularly “L'Inferno").

Tongues takes us from the gritty realism of Afghan battlefields and urban Kenya to the lush and fantastic realms of Mount Olympus as well as deep into unidentified underground mysteries.  It also presents us with all manner of flora and fauna – including those of fantastic and mythological nature – all delineated with such astonishing panache that each level merges into a coherent equality of plausibility that works to create that sense of wonder that is the prized facet of classic science fiction.

Take on online look at the book via out Tumblr gallery post >> HERE << to see what we mean.

This massive, 364 page, lushly printed, full color, oversize, 8 1/2" x 11" hardcover (complete with dustjacket) is nearly as large as the 9" x 12" original issues – all seven of which (1 - 6 + Supplement) it collects.