Last Catastrophe: Stories

"The Last Catastrophe: Stories" by Hyde, Allegra, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. A hopeful, speculative short story collection about how humanity grapples in a world transformed by climate change. A vast caravan of RVs roam the United States. A girl grows a unicorn horn, complicating her small-town friendships & big city ambitions. A young lady on a spaceship bonds with her AI warden while trying to avoid an arranged marriage. In Allegra Hyde's universe nothing is as it seems, yet the challenges her characters face mirror those of our modern age. Spanning the length of our very solar system, the fifteen stories in this collection explore a myriad of potential futures, all while reminding us that our world is precious, and that protecting it has the potential to bring us all together. A VINTAGE ORIGINALAllegra Hydeis the author of the novel Eleutheria & the story collection Of This New World, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Her stories & essays have appeared in The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, The Best Small Fictions, The Best American Travel Writing, & elsewhere. She lives in Ohio & teaches at Oberlin College.Acknowledgements''Short stories were my first love (as a writer), & it was seeing my stories in print for the first time that gave me the wild confidence to pursue the writing life. Thank you to the literary journals that provided early homes for some of the stories in this collection, & thank you to literary journals everywhere for giving space to writers—new & not so new—to share their work...' Book details: 240 pages, published 2023. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.