What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Hello, my friends! I'm putting together a list of fun books with both rock and sci-fi. The list is here: Rock 'n' Roll Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

I already have:
Rock 'N' Roll Babes From Outer Space
Year Zero
Yeah!
The Worst Band in the Universe
Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede.

I'm not sure whether to expand into horror and fantasy, and add Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion.
Anyway, if you have any rock n' roll/sci-fi books, please suggest them, and feel free to add to the list.
Thanks, all.

There's War for the Oaks, although that's more Fantasy.

There's also The Armageddon Rag.

Thank you! I'm going to expand my list to fantasy and horror, and add Paul is Undead and Shock Rock, Volume I and Volume II.

Gwyneth Jones' Bold as Love series comes to mind.

Thanks. Added.

Diamond Star

Please ignore the cover. Its really horrible while still being accurate. A later book in a series.

:D I LIKE the cover!!
Thanks! Can it be read without reading the previous 12?

Potentially it could, but there may be some areas which could be confusing.

Its a good series though.

Only sci-fi? If fantasy is also acceptable, then surely Soul Music.

Sorry Rosa, I read the first post but not the title, apparently - will go and vote on your list.

Thanks, Nente!
I have added all of the books recommended, and these that I found myself:
Singer of Souls
You Know They Got A Hell of a Band
The Alpha Box
Digital Vampires
Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light
Children of the Night
Beautiful City of the Dead
Pay the Piper
Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy (Can't wait to read this one)
Wonderkid
December
Wicked Game
There seems to be a real genre of rock horror. Maybe it deserves its own list.

Wicked Game is sort of like you want. It's about a radio station that is staffed by vampires. . . . .

Thanks. I just found it.

Change in plan: there are so many rock horror books that I've decided to give them their own list. Here it is: Rock 'n' Roll Horror

What about Robert Rankin's Armageddon the musical?

Thanks! It looks funny.
Armageddon: The Musical

Bump!

Bump.

How about (Revival) for the horror list? Sorry if someone mentioned this and I missed it...

Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet for another suggestion. This is actually a collection of short stories all revolving around the same MC who lives on Key West. Several of the stories are about R&R groups. My fav is where Loki tries to bring about Ragnarok using a rock and roll band.

Thank you both.

Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys

Sigh, Rosa, Rosa, Rosa. . .

My book budget just got maxed out since it was "That time of the month" (i.e. payday). Now to indulge in a rock n' roll feast. :o)

Excellent.

Some more I've found: John Lennon and the Mercy Street Cafe
Elvissey
Orbital Decay
Echo and Narcissus
Hallowed Circle
Glimpses
Flesh Guitar
and Joplin's Ghost. This isn't about rock, but I think it fits.
Any others that you can think of?

On the horror side: The Scream
Heart-Shaped Box
The Five
Christine
Silk
Mojo Hand
The Vampire Lestat
The Kill Riff
Vampire Junction
Vanitas: Escape from Vampire Junction
Valentine - Return to Vampire Junction
The Armageddon Chord

Adrian Phoenix, the Maker's Song series

Kill Riff, David Schow -Amazing-

I've just found a new one (mentioned in another post on a different group) called Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion. Paul is a zombie and turns the rest of The Boys into zombies too. One bit I loved in the description on the back is that there is an 8th level Ninja Lord named Yoko Ono and the greatest zombie hunter in England is Mick Jagger. I haven't actually read it yet (it just arrived in the mail) but thought I'd throw it out there for you.

The Kill Riff the click for Mark's suggestion

Thank you, Heather, Mark, and Ann. I already knew about Paul Is Undead; it helped give me this idea.

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I found Gossamer Axe.

Are there any more, or have we found them all?

I'm not sure if there is a supernatural element in the new book The Red Album of Asbury Park. Does anyone know?

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Any more suggestions? You've been great so far.

僕はビートルズ（１） Boku wa Beatles (モーニングKC) 僕はビートルズ（１） Boku wa Beatles (モーニングKC) This is the tale of two members of a Beatles cover band who find themselves transported back in time to 1961 – to a time before anyone had ever heard of the Beatles – and decide to take the mantle of the world’s greatest rock band for themselves!

Woodstock Magic
All Shook Up

Dead Until Dark Introduced in this book, Bubba is Elvis Presley in vampire form he appears in other books in the series
ring of fire series did a lot of short stories about rock
1635: Music and Murder
Grantville Gazette, Volume 46 After the Ring: A Musical Perspective https://grantvillegazette.com/wp/arti...
Diamond Star and Carnelians
スリーパースリーパー also known as sleeper10 years ago there was an explosion that broke seals of the demon world... that time demons came to the human world. To keep them away, special wards were created, which kept demons in one place... but not only demons.. also humans who survived the explosion were imprisoned there. A few years after the explosion, a special delegation was sent to check inside the ward, and to save humans left there... but there were no longer any humans... there were ouma... fusion of demon and human that could use demonic powers while having the rationality of humans....
Sleeper is a band which has 6 members... among them there is Mika, whose powers are not know yet and Row, who sometimes can't hold his demonic nature... this is their story...

Fuuka Vol.1
Wishing You Were HereWishing You Were Here: A Young Adult Rock 'n' Roll Time Travel Romance by Catherine Chant

Soul Mates, #1

Thank you very much, Wendy! I'm so glad there's more! I can't wait to read Woodstock Magic. And is this the Soul Mates you mean?

Also, are there English translations of the mangas you mentioned, or did you read them in Japanese?

Kitty and the Midnight Hour (werewolf radio host in a world with werewolves, vampires and others) Kitty and the Midnight Hour

Thanks, Andy. Is there music involved?

Rosa wrote: "Thanks, Andy. Is there music involved?"

Yes, quite a bit. Each novel in the series starts with a "play list" of songs that have to do with the action of the story, the main character started out as a radio DJ and has a deep interest in music (and she uses "Bad Moon Rising" of course, as the opening theme to her radio talk show).

While not rock n' roll, the Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs has a werewolf or three who are all musically inclined. The 2 MC's (husband and wife werewolves) and the male's father. Btw, the father was a bard wwaayyyyy back in Wales. (And when I say way back, I mean way back. at least to 9th century AD, possibly longer than ago than that.) Alpha & Omega is the short story "prequel" to the series, and Cry Wolf is the first book in the series. This series is a spin off of her Mercy Thompson series, btw, and the 2 kind of effect each other.

And the Kitty books are excellent, so I'm going to support Andy in his suggestion of them for you Rosa.

I remembered another book (humourous fantasy) that has a "battle of the bands" between demons and Loki and various other evil Gods of different mythologies (1 per mythology for the 4 members of the "band"). Unicorn U. is the book that this happens in (I'm 90% sure it's this one in the series.) I guess you could read it as a standalone and still understand what's going on.

Rosa wrote: "Also, are there English translations of the mangas you mentioned, or did you read them in Japanese?"

Boku wa Beatles has not been published in English yet but you can read a few volumes translated online
Status in Country of Origin 10 Volumes (Complete) transtated online in English Vol 4 ch. 33 so far can read on manga translation sites but if it gets translated will most likely be taken off. http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/boku...

Fuuka English Publisher

Kodansha Comics (17 Volumes - Ongoing; Digital)

https://www.amazon.com/Fuuka-Vol-1-Se...

http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/fuuka/



MONSTER IDOLS by Won-Sik Lee & Min-hong
English Publisher

SpotToon (91 Chapters - Complete)

https://www.spottoon.com/book/25/MONS...



I hope this helps there are lots of manga and manhwa about bands and anime a lot has been translated and lot that have not. I only gave ones that had been translated that I could think of. hope this helps

Rosa wrote: "Thank you very much, Wendy! I'm so glad there's more! I can't wait to read Woodstock Magic. And is this the Soul Mates you mean?"






Wishing You Were Here (Soul Mates, #1) sorry I added more info when I found the book. Wishing you were here is first in soul mates series. I hope that helps

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Thanks. What about the mangas?

what more info do you want?I could give you a few more free sites that have translated manga and manhwa or do you want the orginal japaness books on
https://www.amazon.co.jp/In-English/b...


here is one published in English Full Moon o Sagashite, Vol. 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Mo...
Twelve-year-old Mitsuki Koyama dreams of becoming a pop star, but a malignant tumor in her throat prevents her from a singing career until two magical beings step in to help.

here are some manga that have Wikipedia info and anime, movies and tv shows but I have not seen or read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphogear

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerima_...
http://www.animewow.org/watch-nerima-...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKB0048
http://www.animewow.org/watch-akb0048
AKB0048
Alternative Names:
AKB0048 First Stage, 公式サイト
Description:
In the beginning of the 21st century, a world war breaks out over interplanetary travel tech. The environment is pretty much destroyed so mankind leaves Earth and starts Star Calendar 00. Entertainment and songs become heavily regulated and eventually banned due to their power to move people, but a brave idol group puts on guerrilla performances in the name of a famous act from earlier times that sang to Earth's bitter end, AKB48. The illegal revival group's name is... AKB0048

http://www.animewow.org/anime-genre/M...

Crash! Yuka Fujiwara https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...