The last catastrophe : stories
Title:
The last catastrophe : stories
Author:
Hyde, Allegra, author.
ISBN:
9780593315262
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
272 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Subtitle from cover.
"Vintage Books original."--Title page verso.
Contents:
Mobilization -- Disruptions -- toughest part -- Zoo suicides -- Afterglow -- Chevalier -- future is a click away -- Endangered -- Loving homes for lost & broken men -- Cougar -- Frights -- Democracy in America -- Adjustments -- Colonel Merryweather's Intergalactic Finishing School for Young Ladies of Grace & Good Nature -- eaters.
Abstract:
"A vast caravan of RVs roam the United States. A girl grows a unicorn horn, complicating her small-town friendships and big city ambitions. A young lady on a spaceship bonds with her AI warden while trying to avoid an arranged marriage. In Allegra Hyde's universe nothing is as it seems, yet the challenges her characters face mirror those of our modern age. Spanning the length of our very solar system, the fifteen stories in this collection explore a myriad of potential futures, all while reminding us that our world is precious, and that protecting it has the potential to bring us all together."-- Provided by publisher.