Model: Tate Kenney
Photo: David Wayne Fox
Design: Adam Jesse Burns
THE LAST underground
Literary Sci-fi | Hopepunk | Upmarket fiction
“It’s time to evolve beyond who we think we are.”
Abductees, or experiencers as they prefer to be called, are going through the same procedures, in the same order, with the same beings, using the same instruments — all over the world. No-one is listening to them. The Last Underground takes their testimony seriously, blurring the line where fiction ends and facts begin: science faction.
The research has been intense: 73 books, interviews with experiencers and personal experience.
The Last Underground is a collaborative adventure with an unforgettable heroine, crystalizing the radical optimism of Hopepunk with the zeitgeist taboos of alien abduction and pre-Sumerian civilizations. If we knew where we came from, maybe we’d feel less alone in the Universe.
“New species are discovered every day, why stop at the atmosphere?
Comps:
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, 2022 (National Bestseller; New York Times Editors' Choice)
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, 2022 (Locus Award; London Times Bestseller; Nebula nominee; Esquire: “one ofthe best science fiction books of all time”)
The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman, 2023 (Philip K. Dick Award special citation)
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, 2022 (New York Times Bestseller)
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, 2021 (New York Times Bestseller)
and the classic, The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis.
EXCERPTS: THE LAST UNDERGROUND
THE HOUSE MADE OF WHEELS
Literary Fantasy | Hopepunk | Upmarket fiction
Jungle Book meets Heart of Darkness
EXCERPT
When the House is stolen, Mundi must finally face the world.
The House Made of Wheels explores the shadowy layers of nonbinary identity – a young traveler finding its place in a messed up world. Mundi’s imaginary friend Whatíf, a painting of a hermaphrodite, wants to take over the story. In the hunt for the House, Mundi finds a new tale to tell, and a new way to be. (Mundi is an ‘it’ and so am I.)
The surreal locales of The House Made of Wheels tell of a world at the edge of destruction by those who don’t love it enough - and at the center, someone lost enough to find a way to save it.
I lived on Greyhound buses for a year writing my first novel, sleeping in stations, dive motels, canyons and caves. Written on folded, numbered pieces of paper with a pencil.
Illustrations by Boo Cook