Terrestrial History: A Novel [Hardcover]

Longlisted for 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction An affecting, emotional story about loss, community, and the false promise that we may somehow be able to find a convenient escape from the consequences of our actions&Reed asks us to consider what might be easier to change  the laws of physics or human nature? Lyrical, heady. & Writers as diverse as Chang-rae Lee, Jennifer Egan and Ali Smith have circled around a pair of perplexing questions: What does the near-future wish to tell us? And can we save ourselves? Terrestrial History is Joe Mungo Reeds piercing, poetic answer. Reeds simple but vivid prose recalls aspects of Kazuo Ishiguro, Emily St. John Mandel, and Richard Powers, with sentences crafted so creatively yet so seemingly inevitably. A satisfying work of climate fiction involving interplanetary time travel...and the conclusion packs an emotional wallop. Fans of slipstream fiction like [ Science Fiction, lyrical lament, generational fissures, apocalyptic reality& this is a novel that strikes all the notes. I cant wait to press Joe Mungo Reeds