![]() Prescient and wildly imaginative, Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection. And in the title story, originally published in The New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by "blots," preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth's remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. ![]() ![]() A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. "Stories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself on them while reading."-Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus Reviews With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk's debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, " if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror " (Chang-Rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad ). ![]()
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