{"product_id":"archangels-of-funk-9781250807298","title":"Archangels of Funk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRun from your past. Hide from your future. Protect your present.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Water Wars have scrambled the world. Flood refugees are on the run. Disrupters and the nostalgia militia roam the roads wreaking havoc. Invisible Darknet Lords troll the internet, solidifying their power, while Cinnamon, her three Circus-Bots, and two dogs work with a community of farmers, Motor Fairies, and Wheel-Wizards to provide housing, health care and education for flood refugees. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Cinnamon confronts threats from the Darknet Lords and the nostalgia militia, she must determine how best to honor her elders and her history while building a future for herself and her charges. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's not going to be easy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eArchangels of Funk\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Andrea Hairston creates original, layered, complex worlds that are a treat to explore, but what I love most is the people she creates for them. \u003ci\u003eArchangels of Funk \u003c\/i\u003eis brimming with characters who face adversity with love, hope, art, stories, history, and their bonds with each other. It's a celebration of radiant creativity as a bulwark against despair.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e―Martha Wells, author of the \u003ci\u003eMurderbot Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Hairston\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and the artistic director of Chrysalis Theatre. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRedwood and Wildfire\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2011 Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award, and \u003ci\u003eMindscape\u003c\/i\u003e, short-listed for the Philip K. Dick and Otherwise Awards and winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award. In her spare time, she is the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Afro-American Studies at Smith College. Hairston has received the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholarship Award for outstanding contributions to the criticism of the fantastic. She bikes at night year-round, meeting bears and the occasional shooting star.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51184811016466,"sku":"9781250807298","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e2f1cdaa-742d-476f-979d-f27ec84a7282.jpg?v=1765972346","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/archangels-of-funk-9781250807298","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}