Out there

Folk, Kate

£9.99

Kate Folk’s debut collection ‘Out There’ deftly combines elements of science fiction, horror, and psychological realism to create implicitly political and feminist stories. A darkly comic exploration of our lives in the digital age, the collection depicts a landscape that is eminently of-the-moment, and Folk magnifies the ephemera of living with a healthy slice of absurdity.

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Publish Date: 18/04/2023

Description

‘Extraordinary . . . Folk is a dazzling talent’ Karen Joy Fowler

‘Wonderfully weird’ Daily Mail

A woman uses dating apps to find a partner, despite the threat posed by ‘blots’, artificial men more interested in stealing data than dating. A sculptor, trapped in a skyscraper restaurant when a violent coup erupts below, creates a perfect model of the town as it is destroyed. A curtain of void obliterates the world at a steady pace, leaving one woman to decide with whom she wants to spend eternity.

Haunting and darkly inventive, the stories in Out There deftly combine science fiction and horror to uncover an unforgettable vision of the absurdity of life in the digital age.

‘The literary love child of Kafka and Camus and Bradbury penning episodes of Black Mirror‘ Chang-Rae Lee, author of Native Speaker

Additional information

Weight 180 g
Dimensions 196 × 130 × 20 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

320

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K