Tales from the Radiation Age

About Jason Sheehan

Jason Sheehan is a former dishwasher fry cook saucier chef restaurant critic food editor reporter and porn store employee. He was born and raised in Rochester New York and though he has since fled the Rust Belt repeatedly he still harbors an intense fondness for brutal winters Friday fish fries Irish bars and urban decay. As a young nerd he fell hard for Star Wars Doctor Who William Gibson Roger Zelazny and the spaceships-and-rayguns novels his father would leave on his bedside table. He dreamed of someday befriending a robot stealing a spaceship and wandering off across the stars in search of alien ladies and high adventure. Since that hasnt happened (yet) he now writes about it insteadwhich is almost as good. And yet despite all this his mother still kinda thinks he shouldve been an orthodontist. Tales from the Radiation Age is his second novel after A Private Little War and hes also the author of the memoir Cooking Dirty.