βIf Stephen King set out to rewrite The Waste Land as a novel, the result might resemble Glimmering.β βThe Washington Post
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Climate change, rampant viruses, blackouts, fundamentalistsβthe end of the end has arrived. Glimmering, the 1994 dystopian novel by Nebula and World Fantasy Awardβwinning author Elizabeth Hand, is now timelier than ever.
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When the confluence of a solar storm and the collapse of the Antarctic ice shelf ignites the atmosphere like grease, those who are able hide behind their walls and masks, seeking the promise of a seductiveβand dangerousβfuture. As the earth erupts in flames, department store heir and editor Jack Finnegan faces his own inevitable death from AIDS in his familyβs decrepit mansion near the Hudson Riverβthat is, until an old friend offers him a miraculous cureΒ .Β .Β .
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Christian singer Trip Marlowe has found worldwide success, but the dynamic rock star retains his strict morality and faith. Temptation comes in the form of a mysterious blond waif and IZE, a new drug more addictive than crack and heroinΒ .Β .Β .
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The two men will find themselves on a bizarre collision course as a dark and powerful force seeks to shape whatβs left of humanityβs consciousness.
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βA brutal vision of ApocalypseΒ .Β .Β . Handβs powerful vision of these days of wrath is not so much a protracted self-pitying whisper as a Nietzschean insistence on salvation through creative evolution.β βPublishers Weekly, starred review
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β[A] wild, psychedelic, thoughtful thrillerΒ .Β .Β . Another dynamite read!β βThe Des Moines Register