USA TODAY THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2016 LIFE 5D Joe Hill stokes the imagination in ‘Fireman’ Some people want to watch the such as her New Hampshire that weave to- mention A Spoonful of Sugar, world burn. Joe Hill just writes town. Those with the disease gether on skin which might as well be the novel’s about it. burst into flames — or give o like ornate tat- ocial theme song. The apocalypse comes not via roiling smoke for an air of deadly toos, and if the Fahrenheit 451, The Road and zombies but by an outbreak of unpredictability — and the result- Dragonscale even The Stand all seem to be spontaneous combustion in Hill’s ing wildfires cause widespread doesn’t kill likely influences, though Hill superbly crackling destruction to the landscape. them first, channels J.K. Rowling in how he BOOK The Fireman (Wil- Harper learns she has caught it they can com- crafts an immersive world where REVIEW BRIAN liam Morrow, 768 around the time she learns she’s mune with you can smell the ash and feel the TRUITT pp., eeeg out of pregnant. Instead of doing the each other in a burn. (The old man heading up four). A sprawling best for his wife and child-to-be, hippie-ish harmo- the camp also happens to be and intimate sci-fi/ her husband, Jakob, goes o the SHANE LEONARD nious state called downright Dumbledorian.) horror tale, it surpasses mere reservation and joins one of the Joe Hill “the Bright.” (The At more than 750 pages, The genre mash-up by digging into local Cremation Crews, wander- spins an downside: Those Fireman is massive enough that love and passion while also boil- ing mobs murdering those with apocalyp- who spend too you feel as if you could put out an ing down the best and worst parts Dragonscale so it won’t infect tic tale. much time in tune actual fire with it. Some wander- of ourselves when everything be- anyone else. with their pals tend ing plot tangents aside, Hill keeps comes literal hell. Following a vicious attack by to have “the uncomplicated hap- you invested in the characters’ “How are we supposed to live her crazy spouse, Harper finds a piness of pod people.”) survival up to the very last page our lives when every day is Sep- new family in a pocket of infected Music plays an unusually im- and never lets up with the poten- tember 11?” asks the central hero- folks holed up a nearby summer portant role. One Dire Straits tial for doom at every turn. ine, Harper Grayson, who’s camp. She becomes close to a pair just as harmful as it is outside. track in particular is the key to He has built an impressive obsessed with Mary Poppins. of children and the Fireman, a Hill, whose famous father is the Fireman living up to his nick- bibliography thus far with Heart- A highly contagious spore quirky English fella who can con- Stephen King, creates a pandemic name, and former MTV VJ Mar- Shaped Box, Horns and NOS4A2, called Dragonscale infects mil- trol fire in superhuman ways. But that’s dangerous but also tha Quinn may be, to borrow a and the highly imaginative The lions beginning in big cities and after a while, Harper realizes that undoubtedly beautiful. The in- Bangles tune, the eternal flame of Fireman is similarly deserving of then moving to smaller haunts the situation inside these walls is fected sport black and gold marks salvation for the sick. Not to a warm reception.
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