Absence

Praise for Absence “A wild, inventive, and extraordinarily prescient novel, Andrew Dana Hudson’s Absence unspools a moody detective yarn that quickly vaults sky-high, weighing humankind’s slow numbing against daily horrors and faith’s struggle against the impossible. And yet most impressively, within its nightmare of spontaneous gradual depopulation, much is made clear of our species’ capacity for hope. There simply aren’t enough books like it.” —Jinwoo Chong, author of I Leave It Up to You and Flux “Absence is fascinating, shiningly clever, and thought-provoking. A thriller wrapped in dystopian almost-horror wrapped in a perfect enigma, anchored by a grounded and methodic agent named Harvey Ellis. Brilliant!” —Manda Scott, Edgar-nominated bestselling author of No Good Deed Praise for Andrew Dana Hudson “Hudson has found a way to strike together all the various facets of our rapidly changing climate future, sparking stories that are by turns, and often all at once, ingenious, energetic, provocative, and soulful. He is the face of this new movement in science fiction, and we’re lucky to have him.” —Kim Stanley Robinson, Nebula Award–winning author of Red Mars “A fearless and funny and thought-provoking storyteller, interrogating our current social and cultural moment through a radical speculative lens.” —Sam J. Miller, Nebula Award–winning author of Blackfish City ""A fascinating thought-experiment in imagining worlds to come."" —Christopher Schaberg, author of Searching for the Anthropocene