{"product_id":"honeymoons-in-temporary-locations-hardcover","title":"Honeymoons in Temporary Locations - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAshley Shelby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEclectic, experimental, and wildly imaginative climate fictions from a familiar world hauntingly transformed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Climate disaster-induced fugue states, mutinous polar bears, support groups for recently displaced millionaires, men who hear trees, and women who lose their wives on environmental refugee resettlement trips. In these dispatches from a weirding world, the absurd and fantastic are increasingly indistinguishable from reality. Exploring this liminal moment, Ashley Shelby's collection of climate fictions imagines a near future that is both unnervingly familiar and subversively strange. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Set in the same post-climate-impact era, these stories range from playfully satirical to poignantly humane, bending traditional narrative forms and coming together into a brilliant and unusual contemplation of our changing world. Featuring the Hugo-nominated novelette \"Muri,\" \u003ci\u003eHoneymoons in Temporary Locations\u003c\/i\u003e processes the unthinkable through riotous inventions like guided tours of submerged cities, Craigslist ads placed by climate refugees, and cynical pharmaceutical efforts to market a drug to treat \u003ci\u003esolastalgia, \u003c\/i\u003ethe existential distress caused by environmental change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Shelby reengineers the dystopic bleakness that characterizes so much climate fiction by embracing an eclectic experimentalism leavened with humor, irony, and the inevitable bathos that characterizes the human experience. Unexpected and clever, this innovative collection confirms her status as a visionary writer whose work expands the forms, attitudes, and possibilities of climate fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ashley Shelby is a novelist, short story writer, and former environmental journalist. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eSouth Pole Station, \u003c\/i\u003ewas a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Pick, a \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year, and winner of the Lascaux Prize in Fiction. She is also author of the nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eRed River Rising: The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in the Twin Cities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 25, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749779636512,"sku":"9781517917074","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/df33007f2e8746f6c239b473a75f9229.webp?v=1779938303","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/honeymoons-in-temporary-locations-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}