Last Catastrophe: Stories

"A vast caravan of RVs roam the United States. A girl grows a unicorn horn, complicating her small-town friendships and big city ambitions. A young lady on a spaceship bonds with her AI warden while trying to avoid an arranged marriage. In Allegra Hyde'suniverse nothing is as it seems, yet the challenges her characters face mirror those of our modern age. Spanning the length of our very solar system, the fifteen stories in this collection explore a myriad of potential futures, all while reminding us that our world is precious, and that protecting it has the potential to bring us all together"--
Exploring a vast array of potential futures, while reminding us that protecting our world has the potential to bring us all together, this stellar collection of 15 stories spans the length of our solar system as an unforgettable cast of characters grapple with challenges that mirror our modern age. Original.
A hopeful, speculative short story collection about how humanity grapples in a world transformed by climate change.“Dazzling, inventive, and glinting with dark humor.” —Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the SunA vast caravan of RVs roams the United States. A girl grows a unicorn horn, complicating her small-town friendships and big city ambitions. A young lady on a spaceship bonds with her AI warden while trying to avoid an arranged marriage. In Allegra Hyde’s universe nothing is as it seems, yet the challenges encountered in these pages mirror those we face in our modern age. Spanning the length of our very solar system, the fifteen stories in this collection explore a myriad of potential futures through the concept of “global weirding,” planetary and social disruptions due to climate change. In unexpected and genre-defying ways, this revelatory collection reminds us that our world is precious, and that protecting it has the potential to bring us all together.