Shattering Glass, a novel by Connor Coyne

Just when the whole world has written off the city of Arkaic, Michigan, billionaire A. Olan puts up funds for a new university in an abandoned psychiatric hospital. There, strange engines turn human memories into electrical power.

Join students Samo, Monty, Ezzie, and Dunya as they study, work, flirt, explore, and battle powers of ancient evil.  Will they survive their first year of college?

“With Shattering Glass, Connor Coyne has fashioned a hypnotic tale that is at once universal and otherworldly, with writing that is as inventive as the plot.”
– GORDON YOUNG
Author of Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City

“Don’t be fooled by the playful tone and pastiche of Connor Coyne’s second novel. Shattering Glass presents serious questions of identity and morality, posed by vivid characters of a strange and violent world.”
– JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN
Author of Rails Under My Back and Song of the Shank

“It’s the First Year Experience from Hell, yet in often gorgeous and startlingly original prose, Connor Coyne gets at something heartwrenching and heartwarming about coming of age in academia.”
– JAN WORTH-NELSON
Author of Night Blind

“Shattering Glass is a wonder of a novel. Epic in scope, yet completely relatable on a personal level with characters that are three-dimensional and real. It’s a story that builds wonder upon wonder and then mixes in the strange, the horrifying, and more with level upon level and surprise upon surprise.”
– BRYAN ALASPA
Author of Sapphire and Vicious

“Shattering Glass is a lyrical epic that mixes the haunting surrealism of the first year of college with the dark mysteries of the best speculative fiction. A journey in every sense of the word.”
– CHRIS RINGLER
Author of The Meep Sheep and Cemetery Earth

“Coyne’s work has startling bright characters that ground a story that is prone to the fantastic.”
– M.L. KENNEDY
Author of The Mosquito Song

 

Events

Shattering Glass at the University of Chicago Bookstore
Shattering Glass Virtual Launch (start at 7:40)
Shattering Glass Chicago Launch
Shattering Glass Flint Launch

Media

FACEBOOK: Connor Coyne · Gothic Funk Press · Shattering Glass
VIDEO: Shattering Glass Promotional Videos and Playlists
MAP: Arkaic University
PHOTOS: By Night: Arkaic, Michigan and Arkaic University, by Monty Valverde

SINGLE: DUNYA AND THE MAN IN THE MOON
Track #1: Dunya and the Man in the Moon
Track #2: The Tragedy of Luna and Spectra
Track #3: Dunya and the Man in the Moon (R’lyeh Remix)
Video: Dunya and the Man in the Moon