{{short description|Novel by Eleanor Lerman}} {{about|the Eleanor Lerman novel|other uses|radio man (disambiguation)}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2017}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book | italic title = <!--(see above)--> | name = Radiomen | image = File:Radiomen.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = First edition | author = Eleanor Lerman | audio_read_by = | title_orig = | orig_lang_code = | title_working = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = Lon Kirschner | country = United States | language = English | series = | release_number = | subject = | genre = Science fiction | set_in = | publisher = Permanent Press | publisher2 = | pub_date = | english_pub_date = | published = 2015 | media_type = | pages = | awards = | isbn = | isbn_note = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = | exclude_cover = | website = }}

'''''Radiomen''''' is an American science fiction novel by Eleanor Lerman.<ref>[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/eleanor-lerman/radiomen/ Kirkus Reviews]</ref>

==Plot== Laurie Perzin is a middle-aged bartender in Queens that works nights at Kennedy airport. She lives an unremarkable life, having no close family and a childhood memory of a mysterious encounter with "the radioman." When she was six she met a shadowy figure when listening to her uncle's radio. She spends years pretending the meeting was a dream and it sets off a sequence of events that pull her into the company of a psychic, a radio host, a strange dog and the leader of a religious cult that believes aliens, including the radioman, are destined to bring humans to enlightenment.

==Awards== The novel was the winner of the 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.<ref name="Loc16">{{cite web |url=http://www.sfadb.com/John_W_Campbell_Memorial_Award_2016 |title=John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2016 |via=Science Fiction Awards Database |work=Locus |accessdate=2016-07-06}}</ref>

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Category:2015 American novels Category:2015 English-language novels Category:2015 science fiction novels Category:American science fiction novels Category:John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel–winning works Category:Novels about alien visitations Category:Permanent Press (publisher) books

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