Strange labour / Robert G. Penner.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Regina, SK : Radiant Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 194 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781989274354
- 1989274358
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Science Fiction/Fantasy | PENNER, ROBERT | Available | 33111009769163 | ||||
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Main Library | Science Fiction/Fantasy | PENNER, ROBERT | Checked out | 05/18/2024 | 33111010438105 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"With this brilliant debut, Penner thoughtfully upends the tropes of postapocalyptic fiction" -- Publishers Weekly
Strange Labour is a powerful meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe that is indifferent to our extinction, and a provocative re-imagining of many of the tropes and clichés that have shaped the post-apocalyptic novel. Most people have deserted the cities and towns to work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks. The only adults unaffected by this mysterious obsession are a dwindling population that live in the margins of a new society they cannot understand. Isolated, in an increasingly deserted landscape, living off the material remnants of the old order, trapped in antiquated habits and assumptions, they struggle to construct a meaningful life for themselves. Miranda, a young woman who travels across what had once been the West, meets Dave, who has peculiar theories about the apocalypse.
"The majority of the global population have left the cities and towns to become diggers and work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks. The adults unaffected by this mysterious obsession are part of a dwindling population that survives in the margins of a new society, struggling to construct a meaningful future for themselves. Miranda travels alone across what had once been the American West. After taking care of, and then abandoning a group of dementia patients, she meets Dave, who becomes her travelling companion. Dave recounts his many theories about how and why the apocalypse happened, as they search among the dispossessed for a place called Big Echo. A mesmerizing and uncanny meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe indifferent to our extinction."-- Provided by publisher.