{"product_id":"the-strange-9781534449961","title":"The Strange","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Locus Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Stretches the boundaries of the genre.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e1931, New Galveston, Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the Strange to find Silas Mundt's gang who have stolen her mother's voice, destroyed her father, and left her solely with a need for vengeance in this \"page-turner\" (Rebecca Roanhorse, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Sun\u003c\/i\u003e) from Nathan Ballingrud.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince Anabelle's mother left for Earth to care for her own ailing mother, her days in New Galveston have been spent at school and her nights at her laconic father's diner with Watson, the family Kitchen Engine and dishwasher, as her only companion. When the Silence came, and communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars stopped, life seemed stuck in foreboding stasis until the night Silas Mundt and his gang attacked. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once evoking the dreams of an America explored in Ray Bradbury's \u003ci\u003eThe Martian Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e and the harsher realities of frontier life in Charles Portis \u003ci\u003eTrue Grit\u003c\/i\u003e, Ballingrud's \"brilliant\" (Paul Tremblay, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cabin at the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e) novel is haunting in its evocation of Annabelle's quest for revenge amidst a spent and angry world accompanied by a domestic Engine, a drunken space pilot, and the toughest woman on Mars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNathan Ballingrud's stories have been adapted into the film \u003ci\u003eWounds \u003c\/i\u003eand the Hulu series \u003ci\u003eMonsterland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Strange \u003c\/i\u003eis his first novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts in 1970, but spent most of his life in the South. Ballingrud is the author of the collections \u003ci\u003eNorth American Lake Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWounds: Six stories from the Border of Hell\u003c\/i\u003e. He's been awarded two Shirley Jackson Awards, and have shortlisted for the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards. Among other things, he has been a cook on oil rigs and barges, a waiter, and a bartender in New Orleans. He now lives in North Carolina.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"S\u0026s\/Saga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610344558866,"sku":"9781534449961","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4a714d5f-1fe2-4212-a7f0-99f817369f06.jpg?v=1737290462","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-strange-9781534449961","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}