Jordan A. Rothacker is a novelist, journalist, essayist, lecturer, copywriter (portfolio available upon request), editor, and brand strategist.
Newest Book:
The Shrieking of Nothing
Reviews:
Strange Horizons Magazine
Description:
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,”said philosopher Frederic Jameson. In Jordan A. Rothacker’s Domed-Atlanta of 2220, the former has led to the latter.
Assistant Sacred Detective Edwina Casaubon and her Sherlock Holmes-like mentor, Sacred Detective Rabbi Jakob “Thinkowitz” Rabbinowitz, who we met for their first harrowing case together in The Death of the Cyborg Oracle, are back to solve another future noir mystery in The Shrieking of Nothing.
A Filipino mountain goddess, a missing person last seen at an Ego Death Fest, and a serial killer on the loose who might have a hunger for avatars, are just a few of the wild aspects of Rothacker’s thrilling second exploration of what Publisher’s Weekly called a “fascinating postcapitalist world.”
After climate catastrophe, the Earth might be unlivable, but within the Dome, solar-power and future tech, shared-guilt and cooperative healing, and hope as a practice have created a world without want or greed. Free from the dependent abstraction of capitalism all goddesses and gods are reclaimed for individual worship and the minimal crime is split into Sacred and Profane. In The Shrieking of Nothing, these Sacred detectives face a whole new cosmic horror.
ISBN: 978-1-951393-39-7
Price: $12.95 (paperback), $3.99 (ebook)
Release date: October 22, 2024
Praise for The Shrieking of Nothing:
“In The Shrieking of Nothing, set in the year 2220, the detective Edwina Casaubon narrates her journey to find Momo, a missing young man who leads her and her partner through a world that is gorgeously fantastical and futuristic, yet grounded in real human emotions, familiar belief systems, and the forever mysteries of this universe we inhabit. A straightforward detective novel wrapped up in a spiritual quest, the Shrieking of Nothing is a gripping, moving account of the hopes and limitations of our desire for transformation and salvation, both of our spiritual and physical worlds. Simply beautiful.”
— Paula Bomer, author of Tante Eva
“If not quite a key to all mythologies, Jordan A. Rothacker’s The Shrieking of Nothing seems nevertheless a key to many, and offers us something wonderful, vivid and strange: a portrait of life after capitalism in the form of a sinuous noir that plumbs our deepest, most visionary impulses. Echoes abound—of J.G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick, Walter Tevis and Steve Erickson—but the vision here is wholly Rothacker’s own, and the result is transfixing.”
— Matthew Specktor, author of Always Crashing the Same Car
“In Jordan A. Rothacker’s intriguing and insightful murder mystery, he reminds us that even in a utopian society where an enlightened population chooses the gods they wish to emulate, there are lost souls driven to commit acts of violence and the need for heroes to pursue them.”
— Mickey Dubrow, author of American Judas and Bulletproof
“Author, Jordan A. Rothacker, deftly tows that fine line between levity and lament, exploring what David Bowie called ‘the great salvation of bullshit faith’ with a clear note of warning, a strong dose of empathy, and dare I say, hope. This novel is a strange fascination, indeed!”
— Lillah Lawson, author of Monarchs Under the Sassafras Tree, So Long, Bobby, and Doomed Girls of Jefferson
“Rothacker takes us back to the enthralling post-Kapital-death world of domed Atlanta and leaves no path toward enlightenment unturned in this harrowing whodunit. Sacred Detectives Edwina Casaubon, and Rabbi Jakob ‘Thinkowitz’ Rabbinowitz are once again called to action when a strange disappearance leads to even stranger murders. Though the planet outside of the dome is dead—murdered by greed—the vibrant society within has evolved such that belief, faith, and emulation are as free and varied as Atlanta’s citizens. To tread the Sacred and Profane byways and intersections with Casaubon and Rabbinowitz is to explore humanity’s traditions and intentions with Rothacker as your keen, caring, and enthusiastic guide.”
— William M. Brandon III, author of Eternity
“Jordan A. Rothacker’s The Shrieking of Nothing is a crisp, Promethean jaunt, sure to be enjoyed by fans of both Tech-noir and the original stuff.”
— Andy Rusk, professional stuntman, stunt coordinator on the FX show Atlanta
“Fun, fast, and smart, The Shrieking of Nothing is a gift and a question. Though Rothacker’s prose is taut and his worldbuilding singular, it’s the book’s clever central mystery that makes it unputdownable.”
— Mike McClelland, author of Gay Zoo Day
“Whatever Jordan Rothacker writes, wherever the setting, whatever cast of characters, however how high the moon, or low the tide, whether in the future or in the past, whether in Paris, Atlanta, or Nowheresville, whether the world is sacred or profane… you will find the same crackling prose, the same head-spinning wit, the bacchanalian glee, the rapier-like dialogic play, and the same heartfelt yearning for the truth, and for human connection. You open his books; you’ll open your head. The Shrieking is more like singing, and the Nothing, is definitely something.”
— Reginald McKnight, author of He Sleeps, and White Boys
“Rothacker’s words, like graveled crystal, tumbled in a kaleidoscopic lens: words are flowers, rocks, odors morphing into ever-changing stain-glass patterns of image and ideas. Jordan is a Cosmonik stringing together shards of cold technology with immediate shades of the sensual. Divine beings born of tropical mythologies are introduced, holding hands with prophets of the profane, and invite the reader into this future world. Come inside and enjoy.”
— Darius James, author of Negrophobia