AGE OF GODPUNK (The Pantheon Series) - Softcover

James Lovegrove's previous five bestselling novels in the Pantheon series can be described as militaristic thrillers in which the overweening gods are brought to book by the secular forces of a well-armed humanity. Age of Godpunk (Solaris, £7.99) is a change of gear, comprising three novellas that focus on individuals whose lives are transformed by their interaction with deities and devils. In 'Age of Anansi', self-satisfied barrister Dion Yeboah finds himself taken over by the African trickster spider-god Anansi and forced to participate in a contest between a pantheon of pranking deities, while in 'Age of Gaia', a sadistic billionaire tycoon comes a cropper when he finds himself attempting to subdue the Earth goddess Gaia in the form of eco-journalist Lydia Laidlaw. Best of all is 'Age of Satan' a tongue-in-cheek homage to and send-up of the oeuvre of Dennis Wheatley, and a sensitive account of one man's fear of satanic possession and how he uses satanism to change the world for the better. --The Guardian

WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY...AGE OF ANANSI: Dion Yeboah leads an orderly, disciplined life...until the day the spider appears. What looks like an ordinary arachnid turns out to be Anansi, the trickster god of African legend, and its arrival throws Dion's existence into chaos. He is summoned to America to take part in a contest of trickery. It's a life-or-death battle of wits, and in the end, only one person will be left standing...AGE OF SATAN: 1968. Guy Lucas is sent to an old-fashioned boarding school, where he is bullied and abused. A fellow student persuades him to perform a black mass and plead with Satan to intervene, with horrific consequences. For the next ten years, the shadow of Satan is cast across his life; he flees, but tragedy follows him. Eventually, he must confront the Devil, and learn the truth about himself...AGE OF GAIA: Billionaire Barnaby Pollard, energy magnate, has the world at his feet. The planet's fossil fuel resources are his to exploit, as are the size-zero girlfriends he loves and leaves in endless succession. Until he meets Lydia, a beautiful and opinionated eco-journalist. She's the very opposite of the kind of woman he normally dates: large and outspoken, with a firm belief that Mother Nature is not to be tampered with...