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There are two themes to Radiomen. First, if there are aliens interacting with our world, they are likely just as confused about who or what God is as human beings are; and second, whoever they are, they're probably just as fond of dogs as we are.
Laurie, a woman who works at a bar at Kennedy airport, doesn't remember that when she was a child, she met an alien on the fire escape of a building where her uncle kept a shortwave radio. The radio is part of a universal network of repeaters maintained by an unknown alien race; they use the network to broadcast prayers into the universe. She meets a psychic who is actually part of a Scientology-like cult called the Blue Awareness, as well as a late-night radio host. All have their own reasons for unraveling the mystery of the lost radio network. Laurie is given a strange dog by her neighbor, an immigrant and a member of the Dogon tribe - people who believe they were visited by aliens long ago and repeat a myth about how the aliens brought doglike animals with them. All Dogon dogs are supposedly descended from that animal.
As conflict develops between the Blue Awareness leader and the other characters, the Dogon act as an intermediary between the humans, who want to understand why the aliens need the radio network, and the aliens who need the humans to help them find a lost element of the universal network.
- Sales Rank: #37391 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-02-06
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 546 minutes
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Poetic sci-fi, oh my
By M. Bohn
This is a wonderful story that is beautifully written. Even if you are not a sci-fi fan you will still appreciate the literary writing and the great character development. It is a quick read and makes you think about a lot of things afterwards like religion, cults and personal beliefs.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Convincing, casual, amusing and cool
By Sheila Deeth
Radiomen might be the builders of crystal sets, listening for radio echoes from foreign lands. Perhaps they’re engineers, running wires above the waves. Or maybe they’ve captured the sounds of alien transmissions. In Eleanor Lerman’s Radiomen they could be all of these. But forty-year-old Laurie just finds comfort in the sounds of her uncle’s radio after working the night shift mixing drinks. Then, one night, Laurie calls into a late-night talk-show and everything changes.
Author Eleanor Lerman tells this story in the totally convincing, casual, and mildly confused and amusing voice of her protagonist, giving the story an immediacy that soon has readers believing there’s a Blue Awareness cult out to get her. If they can’t get her, they might be after her uncle’s memory, her new dog, or even the guy who runs the radio show. From the far side of Queens to the pride of the rich and famous, from the wrong side of Rockaway to hints of African legends and the Dogon tribe, from now back into a history of uncles and fathers sailing the wild blue yonder with shortwave radios at their side, Radiomen captivates with casually evocative descriptions, cool commentary, wonderful dogs, and a cast of convincingly three (or more, or less) dimensional characters.
Do engrams hiss? Do memories hide? Do dogs believe in people, and do aliens pray? By the end of this wonderfully enticing tale, the biggest question is how on earth will it ever come to a close. But the author brings it to a captivating conclusion, with great good humor, passionate determination, and even a touch of curious reverence. Because, in the end, the real question is something entirely different. And without our questions, we’re adrift on a sea of radio waves.
Disclosure: I was given a free preview edition by the publisher and I offer my honest review
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Compelling quality
By Toby Johnson
I really liked this book. And thoroughly enjoyed the compelling quality of the read.
With Radiomen, poet and novelist Eleanor Lerman has written another roman-a-clef-style novel that swiftly pulls the reader into its quasi-historical, magical, surrealist world. Lerman is author of Janet Planet which I previously reviewed quite favorably. I liked that book too. It was also about the mysterious side of reality. Janet Planet was an imaginary history of what might have happened in the life of the real world writer Carlos Castenada, the Hispanic ethnologist who supposedly met and studied with a Yaqui Indian shaman and psychedelic guide named Don Juan. Don Juan and Castenada became major characters in the psychedelic cult of the 1970s. It was never clear what was real and what was fictional in Castenada’s series of books or what really happened to him and his three wives who disappeared without a trace following his death in 1998.
Radiomen, set a few months after the 9/11 collapse of the World Trade Towers with flashbacks to the 1960s, similarly, imagines how and why a character, modeled on L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, might have been inspired—and compelled—to create a modern, sci-fi like, religion, one with a cult-following, rumors of coersion, mistreatment and defrauding of believers, AND great popularity in Hollywood including even a certain easily recognized actor. But the story isn’t about the good or bad side/truth or falsity of “Blue Awareness,” as the religion is called in the novel, but about the quest for contact with alien visitors which might have driven Howard Gilmartin, founder of Blue Awareness, and his son Raymond, into the world-changing role as prophet, seeker of the secret history of the universe, and possible con-man and crook.
Radiomen is told in the first person of Laurie Perzin, a middle-aged woman working as a bartender at Kennedy Airport in Queens. A lot of the book—peculiarly perhaps or maybe very appropriately—involves accounts of Laurie’s travels around Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan, by train, by subway, by black-market unlicensed taxi, by car, by foot. She’s always on the move.
The narrative voice is a little bored and tired and a little desperate and insistent. From the very start I found myself pulled into the mystery behind the curious event which starts her hero-journey, wondering why she was so reluctant and blas� about something that seemed so important and interesting. She calls in to the late night radio program of a new-age, fringe phenomena enthusiast, talk-show host modeled on the real life Art Bell, and out of the blue is told by his guest, a clairvoyant psychic (and, we’ll learn, a member of the Blue Awareness inner circle), about an event in her childhood she’s always remembered with a certain skepticism and a certain dread.
It turns out to be characteristic of the narrator that instead of engaging the psychic on the radio and finding out what this strange revelation is about, she shuts down and denies that she recognizes the memory. Why? What was that event?
Throughout the novel, Laurie seems to have to be pushed, practically kicking and screaming, into each next step in the unfolding discovery that her favorite uncle, Avi Perzin, who’d been an amateur ham radio operator in the mid-20th century, with his home-built radio had made some kind of contact with aliens. It turns out that the uncle had also been involved with Howard Gilmartin and the start of the Blue Awareness cult. And, now that they know she’s out there because she called the guest psychic, that Blue Awareness inner circle gets quite interested in what pieces of radio equipment Avi Perzin just might have left to his niece.
Laurie Perzin’s resistance to the hero journey suddenly splayed out before her just made me more curious and compelled to keep reading. I, the reader, too felt that sense of dread yet couldn’t put the book down because I had to know what this was about.
What it’s about is interstellar communication, late night radio, fringe phenomena, contact with extraterrestrials, their visit to the Dogon People of West Central Africa and a breed of dog they left behind, Blue Awareness/Scientology as a vehicle for wisdom and secret knowledge, a cosmic version of a world-wide-web transmitting messages out into the “Wild Blue Yonder,” and, very importantly, what the aliens’ think about God.
The main character’s journey then, in a way, is to find God, or at least to discover what’s behind the human—and alien—quest for connection to the mystery that’s mythologized as “God.” At the end, Laurie seems to have overcome her resistance and found a kind of meaning for her life.
That’s everybody’s goal, of course. Everybody’s life can be just a series of days and weeks and years to get through—trips across town. OR, if one wakens to the mystery and allure of a deeper and wider consciousness that transcends that quotidian existence, then you can get more…
That’s the punch line of the book: “What did I want? I wanted more.”
There actually is a “punch line” in the plot, a climactic moment when Laurie is actually graced with a vision of the alien “radioman” and the realization of what it is they’re broadcasting through this cosmos-wide-web. And though that punch line is actually given away in the descriptive blurb on the cover, it’s a thrill to get to it in the course of the reading.
“God,” space aliens, mystical knowledge, the secret of the universe, an alien breed of dogs, the true meaning of religion—what more could you ask for from a novel. It’s all very understated; the protagonist is always reluctant and always a little bored and distracted, but in the end she gets the vision, she gets mystery, she discovers her life in the greater, grander scheme of things. AND she gets to keep the dog.
UFOs and alien abduction certainly are a focal point for wonder these days, a kind of quasi-scientific mythology about the nature of the greater cosmos. This book is a contribution to that crucial discussion of our time.
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