{"product_id":"under-a-collapsing-sky-9781777513948","title":"Under a Collapsing Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe altered-right government has won the 64th presidential election. Meanwhile, universities have gone on strike, vaccinations against the looming bio-plague are rolling out, and a trade embargo with the East has forced Europe and North America to unite under USENA. In an era almost schizophrenically poised between religious fanaticism and a mania for scientific hegemony, all that remains is the hideousness of a world defiantly resisting change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross a polyphony of five different perspectives, readers are \"evented\" through the biological heresy portrayed in Brandon W. Teigland's debut novel \u003cem\u003eUnder a Collapsing Sky\u003c\/em\u003e. At its centre is the mysterious drug Phoenix Tears, an unknown brain parasite which, once metabolised, could be capable of either bringing on the bliss of metamorphosis, or the ritual murder of those looking for a cure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRANDON W. TEIGLAND is an emerging Canadian writer of speculative and literary fiction. He studied Neuroscience, Philosophy and Literature at both Dalhousie University and King's College in Halifax, NS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Readers and Authors are saying about \u003cem\u003eUnder a Collapsing Sky: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brandon Teigland's \u003cem\u003eUnder a Collapsing Sky\u003c\/em\u003e revels in the terrifying entanglement of life as it flies in the face of individualism as a survival strategy. His vision of a possible future is \u003cem\u003eso\u003c\/em\u003e possible that it fascinates as it horrifies, invading the mind and becoming the inescapable present. With uncommon insight and in searingly precise language, Teigland asks: if individuality is a mass delusion, and one that has led our species toward ruin, who, or what, will replace the 'I'? \u003cem\u003eUnder a Collapsing Sky\u003c\/em\u003e is as much about our end as it is about the all too natural consequences of today's actions, an uncanny and prescient novel that responds to ongoing ecological and social crises in ways shockingly new while entirely of our moment.\"-Kyle Flemmer, Founder of \u003cem\u003eThe Blasted Tree \u003c\/em\u003e\/ Author of \u003cem\u003eBarcode Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brandon W. Teigland's debut novel \u003cem\u003eUnder A Collapsing Sky \u003c\/em\u003eopens with lines from \"After a Death\" by Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer. \"It is beautiful to feel your heart throbbing \/ But often the shadow feels more real than the body.\" These lines are a perfect opening for a novel that investigates a kind of corporeality and embodiment that goes beyond physicality- it steps into that shadow space where the body engages with the physical and ethical concerns of biology and society within a \"privatized apocalypse.\" Teigland's novel is complex, layered, with multifaceted protagonists and a mysterious drug called Phoenix Tears. This debut is wholly original, timely, and will not be easily forgotten.\" -Amy LeBlanc, Author of \u003cem\u003eUnlocking\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eI Know Something You Don't Know\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ace of Swords Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781777513948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.37d","brand":"Brandon W. Teigland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41352516567221,"sku":"9781777513948","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b409b3ee-4b1c-4c9f-9473-c5e3ff4851a4.jpg?v=1637034410","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/under-a-collapsing-sky-9781777513948","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}