Pages
156
Year
2025
Language
English

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"One of the most unique and engaging voices in genre fiction." - Booklist

"In this rich and nuanced universe, Mohamed offers an emotionally fierce and human story that takes the time and space to personalize apocalypse." - Quill & Quire, starred review

After making a grievous mistake that ended in death, Henryk Mandrusiak feels increasingly ostracized within his own community, and after the passing on of his parents and the departure of his best friend, Reid, there is little left to tie him to the place he calls home. Henryk does something he never expected: He sets out into the harsh wilds alone, in search of far-flung family. He finds his uncle's village, but making a life for himself in this unfriendly new place - rougher and more impoverished than the campus where he grew up - isn't easy. Henryk strives to carve out a place of his own but learns that some corners of his broken world are darker than he could have imagined.

This stunning novella concludes the story Mohamed started in The Annual Migration of Clouds and continued in We Speak Through the Mountain, bleaker than ever but still in search of a spark of hope in the climate apocalypse.

Henryk Mandrusiak, finding nothing left for him in his community following the departure of his best friend, Reid, travels through the devastated land in search of a new place to call home.


Premee Mohamed is a Nebula-, World Fantasy–, and Aurora Award–winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, AB. She is the author of the Beneath the Rising series of novels, as well as several novellas, and her short fiction has appeared in many venues.



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• STUNNING TRILOGY CONCLUSION: Concludes the story Premee Mohamed started in The Annual Migration of Clouds and continued in We Speak Through the Mountain, bleaker than ever but still searching for that glimmer of hope in the climate apocalypse.



• AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR: Mohamed has won the Aurora Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Nebula Award, and the Alberta Literary Award for Best Short Story Collection. She's a three-time British Fantasy Award finalist, three-time Locus Award finalist, British Science Fiction Association finalist, and an Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize finalist.



• SPECULATIVE ELEMENTS: Perfect for readers who are not into "hard" sci-fi but enjoy fiction with speculative elements, such as Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.



• PRAISE FOR THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS:






• "This packs a punch." - Publishers Weekly



• "One of the most unique and engaging voices in genre fiction … Science-fiction and horror readers alike will enjoy Mohamed's novel, which will appeal to fans of Jeff VanderMeer, Kameron Hurley, and Tochi Onyebuchi." - Booklist



• "Through Mohamed's breathtaking prose, this post-apocalyptic story unravels meditations on community building, adaptation, and collective survival … In this rich and nuanced universe, Mohamed offers an emotionally fierce and human story that takes the time and space to personalize apocalypse." - Quill & Quire, starred review

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