Foundling Fathers - Couverture souple

Elison, Meg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1616964588 ISBN 13 : 9781616964580

Editeur : Tachyon Publications, 2026

Synopsis

When a radical think tank clones America's founding fathers, The Boys from Brazil meets the bicentennial in this ingeniously satirical mashup of U.S.history, cloning, and technocracy gone terribly wrong. The trouble starts when a curious teenager, Benjamin, finds an iPhone in his privy. The problem is, it's supposed to be 1750. Ben takes his discovery to his brothers - Thomas, John, and George. The boys have been raised in isolation on an island plantation by a firm but kind woman, Mary Libertas. All four of them chafe at Mary's restrictions upon them - especially Thomas, who has impregnated yet another servant. Meanwhile, their de facto father figure, Jeff Hancock, complains to the shadowy Antediluvian Society that it is past the time to explain to the boys where they come from and what they must do: Run America the way it used to be run. In this more-than-slightly-absurdist novella, Philip K. Dick Award winning author Meg Elison (Find Layla) skewers those looking to an idyllic past to solve the problems they continue to create.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Meg Elison is the author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, winner of the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. Her young adult novel, Find Layla, was named one of Vanity Fair's best books of the year. Her collection, Big Girl, contains the Locus Award-winning novelette The Pill. Elison has published dozens of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories in outlets including Uncanny, Fangoria, Nightmare, Clarkesworld, and Fantasy & Science Fiction, as well as in several anthologies for the best stories of the year. As an essayist and satirist, she has published nonfiction in McSweeney's, Electric Literature, Reactor, and Psychopomp. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She has been a Clayton B. Ofstad endowed distinguished write-in-residence, as well as a Fred and Lola Case Writer. Elison is married to the cartoonist Colin Lidston, and she lives in the Berkshires in Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tachyon Publications
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1616964588
• ISBN 13: 9781616964580
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible