Collective Gravities
by Chloe N. Clark
Buy on AmazonIn this fantastical, genre-bending collection, Chloe N. Clark launches readers from Iowa, to outer space, and back again. Lyrical, funny, and full of transcendent beauty, Collective Gravities shows us an entire world (and beyond) full of heartbreak, hope, redemption, and wonder.
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"Two of the best stories in Collective Gravities, the debut collection by Chloe N. Clark, deal with disease. “Bound” is the tale of a mysterious pandemic and the tangled lives of the scientists searching for a cure for it; “Thematic Cartography” traces the progress of a strange disease that leaves graphs and text across the skin of the afflicted. Collective Gravities was written before COVID-19, but its speculation about illness, disconnection and the future of love is uncannily prescient. At the same time, Clark veers from science fiction and magical realism in a way that’s both mind-blowing and tender."
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