Social science fiction from the winner of many book awards, including the National Literary Prize “Manuscript of the Year-2021.”
Arlen Zhdanov lives on the closed planet Aurora, and in his head lives a worm. If Arlen studies well, the worm will change him and let him become a real hero and a space soldier. Then Arlen will go to Space and find his father.
Cosmo-fantasy without space, cyberpunk we don’t deserve, a coming-of-age story about children and the coming-of-age of their alien brain parasites—Darwin’s “endless forms most beautiful,” plus retro dance parties.
And also an incredibly sweet and naïve nostalgic body horror about taking a seaside vacation.