The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud
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Title: The Strange
Author: Nathan Ballingrud
Publisher: Saga Press 2023
Genre: Science Fiction; Horror
Pages: 304
Rating: 3/5 stars
Reading Challenges: Spooky Season; I Read Horror - Black, Gray, Orange, or Red Cove
Where I Got It: Library
*Since Anabelle’s mother left for Earth to care for her own ailing mother, her days in New Galveston have been spent at school and her nights at her laconic father’s diner with Watson, the family Kitchen Engine and dishwasher, as her only companion. When the Silence came, and communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars stopped, life seemed stuck in foreboding stasis until the night Silas Mundt and his gang attacked.
At once evoking the dreams of an America explored in Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chroniclesand the harsher realities of frontier life in Charles Portis True Grit, Ballingrud’s “brilliant” (Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World) novel is haunting in its evocation of Annabelle’s quest for revenge amidst a spent and angry world accompanied by a domestic Engine, a drunken space pilot, and the toughest woman on Mars.*
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