Descripción
A journalist is invited to the fabled Dinner of Loss to drink a viscous soup made of lost and extinct things. In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a nihilistic sea captain becalms himself on a plastic sea, while in an English fishing village a senile Blackbeard reminisces about his bloodthirsty glory days. The failed conquistador Cabeza de Vaca sheds his personality on the swampy coasts of the New World, and in a cabin in the woods a couple are haunted by the ghosts of Homo erectus, Neanderthals and other extinct hominids. Elsewhere, a legendary beast is dragged from a Welsh mountain lake...
The fourteen stories in Nick Hunt's debut collection of short fiction travel from sixteenth-century Mexico to a post-collapse near future, from a visionary supermarket to life on other planets. All of them revolve around different forms of loss. By turns blackly funny, disquieting and fantastical, Loss Soup and Other Stories is a journey through the Anthropocene, climate chaos and the Sixth Extinction to the strange new worlds that might lie beyond.
Author: Nick Hunt
Publisher: Greenbank Book
Published: 03/31/2022
Pages: 148
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.34d
ISBN13: 9781896559827
ISBN10: 1896559824
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
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