Resembling Lepus
Earth’s sixth mass extinction has ended, and survivors who have struggled with unhealthy air, food rations and regimented energy consumption are now faced with disturbing new challenges when a detective leads an investigation into a string of inconceivable murders that have rocked her city. This is the futuristic urban setting for Resembling Lepus, the new dark speculative fiction novella by Amanda Kool that becomes the inaugural release in the Emergent Expressions imprint from Grey Matter Press (GMP) when the title publishes on April 26.
Kool’s Resembling Lepus is a tautly written, multi-layered crime mystery set amidst a post-dystopian urban landscape at the end of the current Holocene Era after humans have caused irreversible damage to the planet. Citizens of this surveillance state now required to live with a higher reverence for all life are horrified by a series of murders in this cli-fi dark thriller that investigates the repercussions of man playing god.
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What others are saying
“Kool asks difficult questions here, about life and consciousness, and about rights and privilege.” ~ Alan Baxter, author of The Gulp and The Roo
“RESEMBLING LEPUS is a disturbing dystopian noir that takes us into a future we should hope never comes to pass. With climate change having wrought havoc on the planet, what remains of humanity faces a reckoning: what kind of value do we place on life, and what kinds of lives do we actually value? Amanda Kool sketches a complex, confronting world within this tightly plotted novella – if we’re lucky, we’ll see more stories from her that explore its dark and ethically tangled depths.” ~ Kirstyn McDermott, author of Perfections and the Never Afters series
“RESEMBLING LEPUS is a timely futuristic crime noir tale, set in a very different place - a world like no other - and deals with the complex lives of the creatures upon it. Hauntingly realistic, Kool masterfully tackles the issues and outcomes of our world of today, and provides a frightening glimpse into the very real possibilities of our future.” ~ Steve Gerlach, author of Love Lies Dying and Lake Mountain
“A detective story for animal lovers, keenly aware of the sacredness of life. Alternately gentle and empathetic, creepy and tense, with a dark climax to savour. A futuristic novella for our times.” ~ Rjurik Davidson, author of The Stars Askew
"Kool's RESEMBLING LEPUS is a self-contained novella that intermingles identity, human(?) nature, and a reverence for all life in a murder mystery that says more about the systems humans put into place to define what "life" or "murder" is. Cool, deeply imagined speculative fiction." ~ John FD Taff, multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Fearing and The End in All Beginnings