Empty Cities of the Full Moon
Ace:
New York: 2001
First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,
448 pp.
Cover artwork by: John Jude Palencar
Right, the modern world, technology and all its trappings is starting to bug me. Maybe that’s why this new novel sounds good to me. “The biotech pandemic of 2032-33, which empties the cities and devastates human population worldwide, is an apocalypse not only destructive but also revelatory. The world’s newest technology resurrects the world’s oldest religion, a genetically engineered virus precipitating shamanic manias of drumming, dancing, dreaming, and shapeshifting throughout the world. This plague of apparent global madness, however, not only brings down ten thousand years of urban civilization but also creates something new: A post apocalyptic world under the sway of the full moon, a world peopled not only by human Trufolk but also by shapeshifting Werfolk and aquatic Merfolk.” #13874
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