Introducing two of the four NIGHT RADIO serials.

150 WEST: Antony Johnston

You've never heard of it. You won't find it on a map. No-one will admit to its existence. But somewhere in the Pacific is an island known only by the line of longitude it sits on - 150 West.

Owned and operated by the mysterious voodoo king Papa Jumbo, 150 West is a place where everything you never really believed in is true. Ex-Government assassins, vampires, magicians, a shadowy cabal of businessmen who rule your lives... Papa's sanctuary is where they come to hide from a world that doesn't understand them. And stuck in the middle is a small police force, charged with keeping the peace in a place which redefines the word 'conspiracy.'

But the cops have a problem. Last night, someone killed the Sheriff.

Six hours later, as dawn breaks across the ocean, ex-Seattle cop Elizabeth Lynch is flown to 150 West and sworn in as the new Sheriff. Elizabeth is going to have to deal with a new home, a new life, and a new way of doing her job; all while trying to solve the murder of her predecessor.

Welcome to 150 West.

150 WEST (c) Antony Johnston 2002

Antony Johnston is an author and graphic designer living in London.

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ANODYNE: Matt Fraction

I'm trying to write ANODYNE for me, ten years ago. I was sixteen and I felt like a bottle rocket; I was saying 'okay' instead of just saying 'no'; I had absolutely no control over how I was responding to the stimulus from the world around me. I wasn't walking into walls, I was running
into them as hard as I could, because there wasn't any way to move other than fast...

ANODYNE is about a guy trying to leave his hometown any way he can. It's about broken hearts and bad brain chemistry and not being able to control how you feel because you're sixteen and everything is just so fucking new. It's about being out of control, gloriously, as you race head-on towards or away from the future, just as long as you're moving and the music is loud enough.

The thing that excites me about the anthology format is that it lends itself to experimentation, to the unconventional. The best anthologies are like great mixtapes that were made ten years ago and forgotten, played loud through bad headphones. Wait a minute and there's a whole new song recalling your soundtrack to sex, drugs, violence, and bad youth...

ANODYNE (c) Matt Fraction 2002

Matt Fraction is a web designer and filmmaker living in Kansas City.

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NIGHT RADIO is a four-issue anthology series edited by Warren Ellis and launching in 2002 from Avatar Press, containing four serials written and created by Warren Ellis, Matt Fraction, Antony Johnston and Micaela Petersen.

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Next transmission: February 2002