Description: The world has undergone many changes in the years since monsters came out of the shadows. An anti-monster group known as the Black Hand has started to organize across the United States. In response, pro-monster organizations have been growing in numbers and militancy. Targeted killings of suspected monsters and their allies, monsters spirited away in the dead of night, and the beginnings of pro-monster legislation are all signs of a cosmic shift on the horizon. Is there any hope for lasting peace? Or are these events just precursors to a devastating monster-human war?
Brief description:
Cadwell Turnbull is the award-winning author of The Lesson and the Convergence Saga. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Asimov's Science Fiction, and several anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror. He has won both the Neukom Institute Literary Award and a Lambda Award, and been shortlisted for the VCU Cabell Award and the Shirley Jackson Award.
Review Quotes:
"The stakes grow higher in this sequel to No Gods, No Monsters, so does the death toll. The only things unchanged are the sharp prose, and the stunning portrayal of otherness and change. Turnbull's work is addictive. The deeper we dive into this monstrous universe, the harder it is to let go. I want more, always more."
-- "Sylvain Neuvel, author of the Themis Files and Take Them to the Stars series"