The Offset

The Offset
Calder Szewczak, Natasha C Calder, Emma Szewczak
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 240pg
14 Sep 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780857669186
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It is your eighteenth birthday and one of your parents must die. You are the one who decides. Who do you pick? In a dying world, the Offset ceremony has been introduced to counteract and discourage procreation. It is a rule that is simultaneouslyaccepted, celebrated and abhorred. But in this world, survival demands sacrifice so for every birth, there must be a death. Professor Jac Boltanski is leading Project Salix, a ground-breaking new mission to save the world by replanting radioactive Greenland with genetically-modified willow trees. But things aren' t working out and there are discrepancies in the data. Has someone intervened to sabotage her life' s work? In the meantime, her daughter Miri, an anti-natalist, has run away from home. Days before their Offset ceremony where one of her mothers must be sentenced to death, she is brought back against her will following a run-in with the law. Which parent will Miri pick to die- the one she loves, or the one she hates who is working to save the world?
"Thrilling, terrifying and beautifully crafted, The Offset is the perfect science-fiction novel for our times. I devoured it. " "The Offset' s searing critique of anti-natalism could do for eco-fascism what Ninety Eighty-Four did for socialism and Brave New World did for eugenics. " "It is a bare-knuckle punch to the heart. Calder Szewczak made me suffer - brilliantly. " "The Offset is a prophetic, urgent, gripping read that throws into question what saving the world really means. " "The Offset shows how anti-natalism could also take a dystopian turn. . . even views aimed at reducing suffering can increase it if fanatics seize control. " "An honest, terrifying and sincere look into our future. "
Calder Szewczak is writing duo Natasha C. Calder and Emma Szewczak, who met while studying at Cambridge. Natasha is a graduate of Clarion West 2018 and her work has previously appeared in The Stinging Fly, Lackington' s and Curiosities, amongst others. Emma researches contemporary representations of the Holocaust and has published work with T&T Clark and the Paulist Press.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780857669186
Published: 14 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Angry Robot
Publisher: Watkins Media
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 240

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