Armageddon Rag

Blurb

The Armageddon Rag is a mystery-fantasy novel by American bestselling author George R. R. Martin, first co-published in 1983 in hardcover by both Poseidon Press and The Nemo Press. The Nemo version was a special signed, numbered, and slipcased collector's limited edition of 526 copies. It had different dust jacket artwork showcasing the Nazgûl's West Mesa concert poster, illustrated binding endpapers, and various end-of-chapter illustrations by 1960s underground comix and rock and roll concert poster artist Victor Moscoso.
The novel contains subdued and hidden fantasy elements and is structured in the form of a murder mystery; it is also a meditation on the rock music era of the 1960s and what became of both by the mid-1980s. Martin has described the book as probably his most ambitious and experimental novel but "a total commercial disaster" that almost destroyed his career. Nevertheless, The Armageddon Rag was nominated for both the Locus Award and World Fantasy Awards in 1984. Despite its initial commercial failure the novel remains in print.