A Country Of Eternal Light - Softcover

Harn, Darby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1737009706 ISBN 13: 9781737009702

Publisher: Fair Play Books, 2021

Synopsis

A black hole is tearing apart the solar system.

Mairead's life is already in pieces.

The Earth has less than a year to survive.

Asteroids rain hell; earthquakes rattle cities; manic tides swamp coasts. Mairead intends to give herself to the erratic waves that erode her remote Irish island, the same that claimed her child. When Gavin, an American, arrives to scatter his father's ashes, she becomes torn between wanting for life and death.

Despite the tides, fuel shortages, and closing borders that threaten to trap him on the island, Gavin can't seem to scatter the ashes. He doesn't know how to let go any more than Mairead does and they find a strange comfort in their confusion.

Their affair draws Mairead back to the world of the living, but the longer Gavin stays, the more it seems there might be a future for them. There is no future.

Life closes down around them. The world they know shreds. Life drains into an inescapable abyss. And yet Mairead fights, both the gravity of her grief and the restless, dissonant desire to find some kind of peace no matter how brief. 

About this title

About the Author

Darby Harn is the author of Stargun Messenger, a Self Published Science Fiction Contest Quarterfinalist, and Ever The Hero, which Publisher's Weekly called an "entertaining debut that uses superpowers as a metaphor to delve into class politics in an alternate America." His fiction appears in Strange Horizons, Interzone, Shimmer, and other venues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fair Play Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1737009706
• ISBN 13: 9781737009702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268