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Book

World's edge : a mosaic novel

Call Number

  • SCIENCE FICTION SALL (CEN, OSH)

Publication Information

New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc., [2026]

Physical Description

225 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"A compelling call for compassion and resilience in the maw of social dissolution from literary legend James Sallis, master of many genres and Nebula, Edgar, and Shamus-nominated author of Drive. In a not-so-distant future the United States has fragmented, balkanizing into unstable provinces often at war with one another, and Americans, their great promise not so much lost as forfeited, are encountering the terrors and devastation so much of the world daily lives with. Throughout a land littered with refugees, ruins, orphaned children, soldiers, militia, and fugitives, people go on about their daily lives as best they can. The five linked stories of World's Edge track the false starts and stall-outs of a nation and civilization trying to rise again, to rebuild, and of individuals caught up in that rebirthing. As ever, the only true history lies in the story of individual lives, in the old rag and bone shop of our hearts"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

"Some of the stories in this collection originally appeared, sometimes in slightly different form, in other publications"--Title page verso.

Contents

  • Dayenu
  • Carriers
  • Settlers
  • Allotments
  • Reconstruction.

Subjects