The Beauty
Jan 2018 · Titan Books (US, CA)
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Post-apocalyptic horror gets a “brilliant, haunting, original” twist in this gripping survival story for fans of The Last of Us (Den of Geek).
“Teeming with the spirit of feminist speculative trailblazers like Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin . . . channels the eerie spirit of Kelly Link and the environmental surrealism of Jeff VanderMeer” (Kirkus).
Somewhere away from the cities and towns, in the Valley of the Rocks, a society of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their history recounted by Nate, the storyteller. Requested most often by the group is the tale of the death of all women.
They are the last generation.
One evening, Nate brings back new secrets from the woods; peculiar mushrooms are growing from the ground where the women’s bodies lie buried. These are the first signs of a strange and insidious presence unlike anything ever known before . . .
Discover the Beauty.
“Teeming with the spirit of feminist speculative trailblazers like Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin . . . channels the eerie spirit of Kelly Link and the environmental surrealism of Jeff VanderMeer” (Kirkus).
Somewhere away from the cities and towns, in the Valley of the Rocks, a society of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their history recounted by Nate, the storyteller. Requested most often by the group is the tale of the death of all women.
They are the last generation.
One evening, Nate brings back new secrets from the woods; peculiar mushrooms are growing from the ground where the women’s bodies lie buried. These are the first signs of a strange and insidious presence unlike anything ever known before . . .
Discover the Beauty.
Post-apocalyptic horror gets a “brilliant, haunting, original” twist in this gripping survival story for fans of The Last of Us (Den of Geek).
“Teeming with the spirit of feminist speculative trailblazers like Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin . . . channels the eerie spirit of Kelly Link and ...
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About the author
Aliya Whiteley was born in Devon in 1974, and currently lives in Sussex with her husband, daughter and dog. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction and has been published in places such as The Guardian, Interzone, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Black Static, Strange Horizons, and anthologies such as Fox Spirit's European Monsters and Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction I and II. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice, and won the Drabblecast People's Choice Award in 2007. Her novella, The Beauty, was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award and a Sabotage Award, and appeared on the Honors List for the James Tiptree Jr Award.
Aliya Whiteley was born in Devon in 1974, and currently lives in Sussex with her husband, daughter and dog. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction and has been published in places such as The Guardian, Interzone, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Black Static, Strange Horizons, and antholo...
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