A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that […]
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In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he’s told there’s something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he’s finally […]
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In 2017, Christopher Brown published his debut novel, Tropic of Kansas, a near-future thriller that explores how climate change and broken politics have created a dystopian wasteland…Rule of Capture is a prequel set in the same world. –The Verge Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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“The Warehouse” traffics in big ideas: unchecked monopoly, surveillance capitalism, climate change, the gig economy, consumerism and political gridlock. But, retailed in elegant, unobtrusive prose, this cinematic sci-fi thriller wears its subjects lightly. –San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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The book is practically a novelization of German pastor Martin Niemoller’s post-World War II poem “First they came …,” but the environmental effects of the disappearances of things like roses and fruit make Ogawa’s prose feel applicable not just to political atrocities like genocide but to climate change or any […]
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Argentinian Pola Oloixarac’s novel investigates humanity’s quest for knowledge and control, hurtling from the 19th century mania for scientific classification to present-day mass surveillance and the next steps in human evolution. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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With this stellar debut volume–a “mosaic novel” depicting a world of infinite biomorphic perversity that feels at once surreal yet authentic; estranging yet welcoming; otherwordly yet familiar–Dempow Torishima gives the world a book of fantastika with very few literary precedents. –Paul Di Filippo, Lotus Mag …Frankly, this is in line […]
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About The Philodendrist Heresey Danielle Gasket’s search for ancestral secrets is imperiled by warring factions that agree about nothing but that Danielle must die. Danielle’s home is a dystopian city beneath the earth’s surface. People have lived underground for so long that knowledge of the surface is preserved only in […]
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Between climate change and the fear of impending war, civilization’s collapse feels closer every day. In her latest novel, The Girl in Red, Christina Henry explores what comes after society falls apart. –Paste Magazine Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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This is Wanderers, Chuck Wendig‘s (Star Wars: Aftermath, Blackbirds) epic new novel of a dark future that weaves everything from social media to climate change to artificial intelligence into its complex, multi-viewpoint narrative. –Scyfy Wire Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Wilk entwines a classical sensibility with biological determinism—she almost suggests that humans have reached the final phase of a natural decomposition process, like cells programmed to grow and then atrophy. –The New Yorker In the near future, Berlin’s real estate is being flipped in the name of “sustainability,” only to […]
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The world’s population has been decimated by the Change, a chain reaction of events triggered by global warming. In Europe, governments have fallen, cities have crumbled and the wheels of production have ground to a halt. The Alps region, containing most of the continent’s remaining fresh water, has become a […]
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After a catastrophic storm destroys Melbourne, Isobel flees to higher ground with her husband and young daughter. Food and supplies run low, panic sets in and still no help arrives. To protect her daughter, Isobel must take drastic action. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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The impending apocalypse, be it of the environmental, nuclear, or zombie variety, is proving an inexhaustible source of material for artists. And is it any wonder? Every month, yet another international agency releases a verdict on our collective future even more dire than its predecessors. The challenge for writers is […]
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This is about Nigeria. Lagos Nigeria. It is about the people who live there and the culture and language that has arisen there from time immemorial, being created, generation after generation, as the evolution of any group. It is about the sea, about the animals and creatures, great and small, […]
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