The Strange - Nathan Ballingrud

Written by Nathan Ballingrud
Read by Sophie Amoss
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length 10:23

Ray Bradbury meets “The Martian” in this chilling page-turning tale of Mars’ first colony, fallen to madness after all contact with Earth ceased, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer.

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1931, New Gavleston, Mars: 14-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.

Since Anabelle’s mother left for Earth to care for her own ailing mother, her days in New Gavleston 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.

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At once evoking the dreams of an America explored in Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles” and the harder realities of frontier life in Charles Portis’s “True Grit”, Ballingrud’s novel is haunting in its evocation of Anabelle’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.

Nathan Ballingrud’s stories have been adapted into the film “Wounds” and the Hulu series “Monsterland”, “The Strange” is his first novel.

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goodreads.com/en/book/show/61272810
fantasticfiction.com/b/nathan-ballingrud/strange.htm
audible.com/pd/The-Strange-Audiobook/1797123289