We Are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull

We Are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE

The long-awaited sequel to No Gods, No Monsters from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull, We Are the Crisis sees humans and monsters clash as civil rights collide with preternatural forces.

Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca's old wolf pack have begun to go missing without a trace.

The world has undergone many changes in the years since monsters came out of the shadows. An anti-monster group known as the Black Hand has started to organize across the United States. In response, pro-monster organizations have been growing in numbers and militancy. Targeted killings of suspected monsters and their allies, monsters spirited away in the dead of night, and the beginnings of pro-monster legislation are all signs of a cosmic shift on the horizon. Is there any hope for lasting peace? Or are these events just precursors to a devastating monster-human war?

Meanwhile, beneath it all, two ancient orders escalate their mysterious conflict, revealing dangerous secrets about the gods and the very origins of magic in the universe ...

Cadwell Turnbull is the author of The Lesson, his first novel. He holds a Creative Writing MFA in Fiction and an English MA in Linguistics from North Carolina State University. Turnbull graduated from Clarion West in 2016. His short work has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Verge, Lightspeed, and Nightmare. Loneliness Is in Your Blood, a Nightmare story, was chosen for the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 anthology.

His Lightspeed tale Jump was published on LeVar Burton Reads and was selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019. Turnbull has been long-listed for the 2020 VCU Cabell's First Novelist Prize and nominated for the 2020 AAMBC Sci-fi Fantasy Author of the Year for his work on The Lesson.