Not Dark Yet by Berit Ellingsen

Not Dark Yet by Berit Ellingsen

*Favorite books of 2015 --Electric Literature
"Fascinating, surreal, gorgeously written, and like nothing you've ever read before, Not Dark Yet is the book we all need to read right now. It is art about science, climate change, and activism, and it vitally explores how we as people deal with a world that is transforming in terrifying ways."
--BuzzFeed

Brandon leaves his boyfriend in the city for a quiet life in the mountains after an affair with a professor ends with Brandon being forced to kill a research animal. It is a violent, unfortunate episode that conjures memories from his military background.
In the mountains, his new neighbors are using the increased temperatures to stage an ambitious agricultural project in an effort to combat globally heightened food prices and shortages. Brandon gets swept along with their optimism, while simultaneously applying to a new astronaut training program. However, he learns that these changes--internal, external--are irreversible.
A sublime love story coupled with the universal struggle for personal understanding, Not Dark Yet is an informed novel of consequences with an ever-tightening emotional grip on the reader.

Berit Ellingsen is a Korean-Norwegian author whose work Not Dark Yet was released in November 2015 by Two Dollar Radio. She is the author of the Liquid Skin and Vessel & Solsvart short story collections, as well as the novel Une Ville Vide (PublieMonde). Her work has been published in W.W. Norton's Flash Fiction International, SmokeLong Quarterly, Unstuck, Litro, Up Here - The North in the Core of the World, and other publications have published his work, and he has received Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and British Science Fiction Award nominations. Berit is a member of the Norwegian Authors Union who splits her time between Norway and the Arctic.