![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Marrying speculative, realistic, and fabulist traditions to dystopian formula, Dickson's paean to individualism both breaks and strengthens the heart. Not just the weeds, or the creatures with extraordinary powers, but John himself. But the farther they travel across America's haunted landscape, the more surreal and alien everything becomes. But after his wife receives her final feast, he gradually immerses himself in a new rebellion, with a group of underground revolutionaries fighting to escape the Divine Rite's reach. This is the only life John Welland ever knew. Putting survivors to the test in a most literal way, they devised a yearly test called Justification. A power rose from the ashes calling itself the Divine Rite, and they asserted a deadly new order in this ravaged world. People called them serpent weeds, and they consumed all the crops and eventually entire cities and civilization itself. The world ended not with a bang, but with a grain of pollen on a puff of wind. ![]()
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