Eric Recommends: "Vellum" by Hal Duncan

Vellum . The first part of Hal Duncan's epic about a battle between angels, demons, and everything in between. Gorgeously written and amazingly complex. You really have to pay close attention while reading as the story is told in a non-linear fashion, and characters are followed through different incarnations in time and space, from ancient times to WWI, from AI landscape to versions of themselves as literal fairies and sprites. It's one of the most interesting and intense books I've read in some time. I'd love to see some of his imagery on film, but there would be no way to film this and retain the spell it casts.