Osiris from Night Shade Books
A new Night Shade Books e-mail has pointed me at Osiris*, the first book in a new trilogy by author E.J. Swift that sounds like something I should try. Digging deeper, I find the announcement from Night Shade Books about signing the deal just makes me even more interested in the first novel.
An ingenious and engaging work of dystopian fiction, the eponymous Osiris is a retro-futuristic metropolis reminiscent of Huxley’s Brave New World. The novel tells of an unlikely romance across social divides between a glamorous young socialite grieving for her missing twin and an idealistic activist from the wrong side of the wall.
Okay, so it’s a romantic sci-fi tale, but that first sentence has all of the right trigger words to kick my brain and tell me that at the very least I should give the book a shot. But considering that Night Shade was responsible for Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Windup Girl” (first mentioned here) I am more than happy to give Osiris* a try based on the description alone.
Rising high above the frigid waters, the ocean city of Osiris has been cut off from the land since the Great Storm fifty years ago. Most believe that Osiris is the last city on Earth, while others cling to the idea that life still survives somewhere beyond the merciless seas. But for all its inhabitants, Citizens and refugees alike, Osiris is the entire world–and it is a world divided.
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