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The strange / Nathan Ballingrud.
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"When the Silence comes, stopping all communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars, fourteen-year-old Annabelle Crisp, in 1931, New Galveston, Mars, sets off through the wastelands of the Strange to exact revenge on the man responsible for destroying her family."--Provided by the publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781534449954
- ISBN: 1534449957
- Physical Description: 293 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Saga Press hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Saga Press, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023.
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- Space colonies > Fiction.
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Revenge > Fiction.
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- Science fiction.
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- Baker & Taylor
When the Silence came, stopping all communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars, 14-year-old Annabelle Crisp, in 1931, New Galveston, Mars, sets off through the wastelands of the strange to exact revenge on the man responsible for destroying her family. - Baker & Taylor
When the Silence comes, stopping all communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars, fourteen-year-old Annabelle Crisp, in 1931, New Galveston, Mars, sets off through the wastelands of the Martian desert to exact revenge on the man responsible for destroying her family. - Simon and Schuster
A Locus Award Finalist
1931, New Galveston, Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the Strange to find Silas Mundtâs gang who have stolen her motherâs voice, destroyed her father, and left her solely with a need for vengeance.
Since Anabelleâs mother left for Earth to care for her own ailing mother, her days in New Galveston have been spent at school and her nights at her laconic fatherâs diner with Watson, the family Kitchen Engine and dishwasher as her only companion. When the Silence came, and communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars stopped, life seemed stuck in foreboding stasis until the night Silas Mundt and his gang attacked.
At once evoking the dreams of an America explored in Ray Bradburyâs The Martian Chronicles and the harder realities of frontier life in Charles Portis True Grit, Ballingrudâs novel is haunting in its evocation of Anabelleâs quest for revenge amidst a spent and angry world accompanied by a domestic Engine, a drunken space pilot, and the toughest woman on Mars.
Nathan Ballingrudâs stories have been adapted into the film Wounds and the Hulu series Monsterland, The Strange is his first novel.