The Night Before the End of the World
In The Night Before the End of the World, award-winning author Ran Walker crafts 200 microfiction and prose poem pieces that pulse with afrosurrealism, horror, humor, love, and loss. Each piece, ranging from 9-235 words, explores the wild and often uneasy dance between technology and human creativity. Walker blends the bizarre with the everyday, bringing to life digital nightmares, fractured love stories, and moments of unexpected humor in a world on the edge of collapse. From the eerie to the absurd, these stories invite readers to reflect on how technology shapes our deepest fears and desires. The Night Before the End of the World is a bold and thought-provoking collection that captures the beauty and chaos of being human in an increasingly digital world.
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In The Night Before the End of the World, award-winning author Ran Walker crafts 200 microfiction and prose poem pieces that pulse with afrosurrealism, horror, humor, love, and loss. Each piece, ranging from 9-235 words, explores the wild and often uneasy dance between technology and human creativity. Walker blends the bizarre with the everyday, bringing to life digital nightmares, fractured love stories, and moments of unexpected humor in a world on the edge of collapse. From the eerie to the absurd, these stories invite readers to reflect on how technology shapes our deepest fears and desires. The Night Before the End of the World is a bold and thought-provoking collection that captures the beauty and chaos of being human in an increasingly digital world.
H | B | T | Gramm
178 mm | 111 mm | 13 mm | 0.196 kg
Erscheinungsjahr
2025
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0
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Taschenbuch
Verlag
Black and Square
ISBN-10
1961753162
Autor
Ran Walker
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
234
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Lyrik, Poesie, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA
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Ran Walker
Ran Walker (he/him) is the author of over 30 books. His short stories, flash fiction, microfiction, and poetry have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. Prior to becoming a writer and educator, he worked in magazine publishing and practiced law in Mississippi.He is the winner of the Indie Author Project's 2019 National Indie Author of the Year Award, the 2019 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Best Fiction Ebook Award, the 2018 Virginia Indie Author Project Award for Adult Fiction, and the 2021 Blind Corner Afrofuturism Microfiction Contest. Ran is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hampton University and teaches with Writer's Digest University. He lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.
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