Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge releases new sci-fi book

Tom DeLongeof Blink 182, wrote a new science fiction book that should be released on June 11th. The novel, called Trinitywas written in partnership with AJ Hartleywith whom By far worked in Sekret Machine. Read synopsis:

It’s 1962, in Trinity, Nevada, a small town on the edge of the desert, home to a military base that serves as a nuclear testing ground. Van Lopez and his brother Andy have enough things to worry about, keeping their truck running and the local criminal gang happy, to pay attention to nuclear testing. Van has dreams, or—he’s not sure what to call them—that he can’t explain or forget, but when he sees mysterious lights in the sky, he struggles to make sense of what now seem to be his earliest memories.

On the day of the atomic test, the nuclear explosion drops something on Trinity that shouldn’t be there—something not of this world. Now Van is running for his life, pursued by a murderous Soviet agent and government forces determined to keep everything he saw — and everything he remembered — from getting out. Romances and rivalries reach a climax as he fights for what he holds most dear, and in this final battle he may have to make allies from his oldest enemies.

“This story takes place around a seminal UFO event that I believe happened,” he said. By far (via NME). “Although the location may have been changed, the importance of what I believe happened remains. A.J. and I wanted to capture the feeling of being at this pivotal moment in American culture in 1962: the cars, the space race, the beginning of social change, but also under the pressures of Vietnam, the Cold War, and a new skepticism about government secrecy. .”

“We wanted to look at all of this from the perspective of young people who are struggling to find a sense of themselves and are, for various reasons, misfits, even outcasts, struggling for a sense of identity and purpose. We took a lot of truth and wrapped it in a cool, rebellious story to help explain the enormity and complexity of the subject.”