Category:
Science Fiction
Regular value:
$7.99
Deal value:
$2.99
Deal begins:
May 20, 2023
Deal ends:
May 20, 2023
“This impressively bleak vision of the near future is as grotesquely amusing as it is grim.” — Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW
“A gripping tour-de-force torn from tomorrow’s headlines.” — David Demchuk, creator of Red X and The Bone Mother
“A bold dystopian novel that captivates with its dread and depth. The Marigold is unhinged literary horror that goes right to the source of decay.” — Iain Reid, award-winning creator of I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Foe, and We Spread
In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environmental chaos and unfettered improvement, an unsettling new lifeform begins to develop beneath the floor, feeding off the previous.
The Marigold, a gleaming Toronto condominium tower, sits a half-empty promise: a stack of scuffed rental suites and undelivered facilities that crumbles round its residents as a mysterious sludge spreads slowly via it. Public well being inspector Cathy Jin investigates this poisonous mildew because it infests town’s infrastructure, rotting it from inside, whereas Sam “Soda” Dalipagic stumbles on a harmful cache of information whereas cruising the streets in his Camry, ready for his subsequent rideshare alert. On the outskirts of downtown, 13-year-old Henrietta Brakes chases a buddy deep underground after he’s snatched right into a sinkhole by a creature from under.
All the whereas, building of town’s latest luxurious tower, Marigold II, has stalled. Stanley Marigold, the struggling son of the legendary developer behind this undertaking, decides he should faucet right into a hidden reserve of previous energy to make his dream a actuality — one with a human value.
Weaving collectively disparate storylines and tapping into the realms of physique horror, city dystopia, and ecofiction, The Marigold explores the precarity of neighborhood and the delicate designs that bind us collectively.
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