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The Last Catastrophe
The Last Catastrophe: Stories | Allegra Hyde
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A hopeful, speculative short story collection about how humanity grapples in a world transformed by climate change. 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. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL
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So many catastrophes! Marriages, ecosystems, societies, zoos, RV caravans. Memorable, often humorous, unnerving speculative fiction shorts. Ecocollapse. Knowing narrators. Failures, big and small. 2023

P175 “For many years, we went to the lakes in the summers, but when the springs became like the summers and winters like the springs we left earlier—and then earlier still—until we were already at the lakes when it was time for us to arrive.”