Owen King and John McNally's
Who Can Save Us Now?

Who knew? Nebraska's just crawling with superheroes. At least if Who Can Save Us Now?, the delightful new anthology of short fiction is to be believed. Edited by Nebraska writer John McNally and Owen King, son of Stephen King, the writers collected imagine new superheroes, who fight crime, yes, but who are also as "conflicted, frustrated, freaked out" and as all-out loony as the rest of us. Nebraska writers represented include Sean Doolittle, author of Dirt, Burn, Rain Dogs, and The Cleanup, whose story "Mr Big Deal," brings his grit noir sensibility to the superhero genre; Richard Dooling, author of Critical Care, White Man's Grave, Brainstorm and several other books, contributes "Roe #5," whose story is about a Nebraska beauty queen's date with destiny; and McNally, too, whose "Remains of the Night" adds to the collection's delightful and unpredictable romp among the super-powered, Nebraska-style.

Nebraska Center for Writers