Ebook: The Fixed Stars : Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season

A fable-like tale of a small community afflicted by a mysterious plague a Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian ConnOCOs "The Fixed Stars" is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic. a At the novelOCOs heart are the JohnOCOs Day celebration and the interactions of a small community dealing with a mystery disease. Routinely citizens are quarantined and then reintegrated into society in rituals marked by a haunting brutality. The infected and the healthy alike are quarantined. In a culture that has retreated from urbanism into a more pastoral society, the woman who nurtures spiders and the man who spins hemp exist alongside the mass acceptance of sexual promiscuity.aConn delivers a compelling portrait of a calamitous era, one tormented by pestilence, disease, violence, and postOColate capitalism. An unflinching look at a world impossible to situate in time, "The Fixed Stars" is mythic and darkly magical. "