Products specifications
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Author
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Courttia Newland |
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Pub Date
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28/10/2021 |
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Binding
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Paperback / softback |
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Pages
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320 |
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Country
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United Kingdom |
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Dewey
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823.92 |
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GBPPrice
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12.99 |
In his sharply crafted, unnerving first collection of speculative fiction shorts, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora.
Robots used as human proxies in a war become driven by all-too-human desires; Kill Parties roam the streets of a post-apocalyptic world; a matriarchal race of mer creatures depends on inter-breeding with mortals to survive; mysterious seeds appear in cities across the world, growing into the likeness of people in their vicinity.
Through transfigured bodies and impossible encounters, Newland brings a sharp, fresh eye to age-old themes of the human capacity for greed, ambition and self-destruction, but ultimately of our strength and resilience.
