{"product_id":"cosmogramma-book-courttia-newland-9781617759789","title":"Cosmogramma","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures, and the uncanny.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Newland's second venture into science fictional territories is a rich, diverse collection of short stories.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Newland easily engages readers with complex worldbuilding, well-shaded characters, and stories as entertaining as they are meaningful. It's no small feat to so immediately and repeatedly appeal to readers' hearts and minds, and Newland's mastery of short-format storytelling is sure to impress. Speculative fiction fans won't be able to put this down.\" \u003ci\u003e--Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his exquisite first collection of speculative fiction, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKill parties roam the streets of a post-apocalyptic world; a matriarchal race of mer creatures depends on interbreeding with mortals to survive; mysterious seeds appear in cities across the world, growing into the likeness of people in their vicinity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough transfigured bodies and impossible encounters, Newland brings a sharp, fresh eye to age-old themes of the human capacity for greed, ambition, and self-destruction, but ultimately of our strength and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49554415255825,"sku":"GOR012300660","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50034096275729,"sku":"CIN1617759783VG","price":6.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1617759783.jpg?v=1751408169","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/cosmogramma-book-courttia-newland-9781617759789","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}