Superlative genre-blog Pornokitsch has today revealed the fantastic covers for Charlie Human‘s APOCALYPSE NOW NOW. Their post also includes a great interview with artist Joey Hi-Fi.

We announced Charlie’s exciting deal a while ago, and doubling-up with Pornokitsch we are thrilled to now share the new artwork for the UK and South Africa editions here on the agency web site. The novel is due to be published in August 2013 by Random House Century in the UK and Random House Struik in South Africa and both editions will feature the eye-popping artwork of Joey Hi-Fi. These awesome covers are sure to grab people’s attention…

APOCALYPSE NOW NOW has been a frequent topic of discussion in the Zeno office (JB called it ‘sly, iconoclastic, off-the-wall and full of the kind of energy that I hunger for in my reading‘ and, basically, now won’t shut up about it!) and has been described by Lauren Beukes (author of THE SHINING GIRLS the Arthur C. Clarke Award winning ZOO CITY as ‘… mad and dark and irreverent and wonderfully twisted in all the right ways.’ Here’s the blurb…

Baxter Zevcenko is your average sixteen-year-old-boy — if by average you mean kingpin of a schoolyard porn syndicate and possible serial killer who suffers from surreal  nightmares. Which may very well be what counts as average these days. Baxter is the first to admit that he’s not a nice guy. After all, if the guy below you falls, dragging you down into an icy abyss you have to cut him loose — even in high school.

That is until his girlfriend, Esmé, is kidnapped and Baxter is forced to confront a disturbing fact about himself — that he has a heart, and the damn thing is forcing him to abandon high-school politics and set out on a quest to find her. The clues point to supernatural forces at work and Baxter is must admit that he can’t do it alone. Enter Jackie Ronin, supernatural bounty hunter, Border War veteran, and all-round lunatic, who takes him on a chaotic tour of Cape Town’s sweaty, occult underbelly.

What do glowing men, transsexual African valkyries, and zombie-creating arachnids have to do with Esmé’s disappearance? That’s what Baxter really, really needs to find out.