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Desert Creatures
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Artikel-Nr:
9781645660521
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.11.2022
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Kay Chronister
Gewicht:
431 g
Format:
218x140x28 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Kay Chronister is an award-winning writer of dark and speculative fiction. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Shimmer, Black Static, The Dark and elsewhere. Her first collection of short fiction, Thin Places, was published by Undertow Publications in 2020 and has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Currently a PhD candidate in Literature at the University of Arizona, she researches romance, folklore, and politics in eighteenth-century Britain.
In a future American West hollowed out by ecological decay, a girl named Magdala seeks a miracle cure for her clubfoot in the mythical city of Las Vegas, a place teeming with violent sinners and mysterious, magical saints. In this multi-part story spanning decades of her life, she travels through the desert--which is full of both surrealist horrors like formerly human chimeras, and more mundane dangers like bandits and death cults--and comes of age in a resource-starved world where faith seems both necessary and futile, in award-winning short fiction writer Kay Chronister's debut novel.