Hellboy: The God Machine, a novel by Thomas E. Sniegoski

[jnapper]

Looks like the novel has a new ship date: July 25, 2006
(Previous ship date was October 2006)

Hellboy: The God Machine*
By Thomas E. Sniegoski; Cover by Mike Mignola
Mass Market Paperback, First Edition
Pocket Star Books

Click for cover art and info at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...1/hellboycom01



Thanks for the update link, ...
http://forums.comicbookresources.com...7&postcount=10

[Tad]

Out for San Diego Comic Con. Good call. The novelists should all do a panel with Mike.

[Sparky]

The novelists should all do a panel with Mike.

Oh man, that would be great! We could get a really interesting discussion going, instead of the "I know you said not to ask about the movie, but I had this question about the movie..." kind of stuff that usually happens.

[Neil Hill]

Out for San Diego Comic Con. Good call. The novelists should all do a panel with Mike.

Tad, as ever you are right on the ball and thinking my thoughts even before I've had the chance to type them out! :) I love it when that happens!!

Yeah, these novels are really hitting the spot and I sincerely hope they continue these ad infinitum. It would be a ton of fun to have Mike and the various authors-past, present, and future, do a panel together. Hopefully the PTB are listening...

[ADamUnRama]

"Impressive.

Most Impressive."

[plut]

Only problem with the novels are that they strain an allready non-existent economy. So far I've ignored them as probably-uninteresting but then a friend lent me Bones of Giants and I realized that wasn't the case.

Same thing with the whole BPRD-title. Soon we'll be having Liz and Abe Sapien-books (allready happend) and the worst part will be that they'll be good! Sorry, OT there.

[jnapper]

Summary of novel
(Thanks to Christopher Golden for trackin' it down for me) :)

Hellboy, a blood-red, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He questions the unknown-- then beats it into submission.

Religious artifacts from every faith are disappearing without a trace. The identity of the perpetrator is a complete mystery until Hellboy and Liz Sherman-- acting on an unlikely tip from a ghost-- foil a museum heist attempted by crude, robotic constructs inhabited by human spirits.

One of these freed human spirits offers to help Hellboy track down those who imprisoned him: a fanatical order of psychics obsessed with creating a new messiah, one that will bring about a new stage of evolution for mankind-- whether mankind is willing or not.

Now only Hellboy and his colleagues stand between a vulnerable humanity and an evil, vengeful god....

[InAdia]

Oh my GOD!!!! That story sounds fabulous. I cannot wait to get my grubby little paws on it. <3!!!!! Liz Sherman

The Real Inadia

[Neil Hill]

Sounds like the plot to a story that Mike himself might draw in a Hellboy adventure of his own! This one looks like it will be fun. :)

[InAdia]

Sounds like the plot to a story that Mike himself might draw in a Hellboy adventure of his own! This one looks like it will be fun. :)

Is that an observation or a semi-fact?

The Real Inadia

[Poe Ghostal]

According to an interview with Sniegoski that I read...somewhere, the plot is (presumably loosely) based on an actual event, a cult that tried to make its own god. I've tried tracking it down on the Web, but no luck so far.

[plut]

that is a great plot. on the verge of being silly (at least we retold like that) but not crossing over.

[kid cthulhu]

Oh, now that sounds too fun!

And Lady J, I'm really liking your new avatar.

[Neil Hill]

Is that an observation or a semi-fact?

The Real Inadia

Just an observation InAdia, nothing more. :)

[Otto66]

Thanks for the update, Lady J.
Digg'n yer new avatar.
I agree with Stygian on the more novels thing.
And, Poe Ghostal? Duh... ain't that what cults do?:D