A 2025 National Book Award Nominee
This is not your comic book trickster. Twilight of the Gods is satire and alternate history on an operatic, cinematic, and cosmic scale, with a cast that transcends time and space. The grinding of The Wheel of Fate is heard in Valhalla, as it is in Berlin and Boston. Can Odin’s many schemes be undone? Who can rewire the robotic nightmare of politics and write a brighter future for humanity? Only humanity’s champion, the long misunderstood, supposed force of evil, Loki. This is a tale of fallen gods and failing humanity, of love lost and found, of parents and children, magic and sex, art and lies, good, evil, and the end of Fate. This is the story of Loki. In his own words.
Stalking Horse Press, 2025
“Timely, hilarious, and wildly original, Twilight of the Gods is unlike any book you’ve ever read and finds Baumeister at the top of his game.” — Jonathan Evison, author of Again and Again
“Big, sprawling, smart, epic in every sense of the word — Baumeister’s Twilight of the Gods mines ancient ground and comes up with something wonderfully vivid and new to say about mythology and our modern era.” — Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You
“Irreverent, humorous, and packing a gut punch of reality, Baumeister has invoked perhaps one of the most memorable Lokis of the 21st century.” — Sequoia Nagamatsu, bestselling author of How High We Go in the Dark
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