it devours a welcome to night vale novel

The relationship between science and religion is satisfyingly explored with humor and insight. With a gripping mystery, a very smartly built world (a place similar to our own world but at the same time distinctly other), and a cast of offbeat characters, the novel is a welcome addition.” - Booklist a thrilling adventure and a fascinating argument that science and belief aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.” - Tor.com “ smart exploration of the divide-and overlap-of science and religion. Nilanjana and Darryl must search for common ground between their very different world views as they are faced with the Congregation’s darkest and most terrible secret.

Caught between her beliefs in the ultimate power of science and her growing attraction to Darryl, she begins to suspect the Congregation is planning a ritual that could threaten the lives of everyone in town. This investigation leads her to the Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God, and to Darryl, one of its most committed members.

But all of that is put into question when Carlos gives her a special assignment investigating a mysterious rumbling in the desert wasteland outside of town. Working for Carlos, the town’s top scientist, she relies on fact and logic as her guiding principles. Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. I’m packing up and moving to Night Vale! –Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.įrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God. “Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. A new page-turning mystery about science, faith, love and belonging, set in a friendly desert community where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life.

It devours a welcome to night vale novel