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Alan Heathcock

    Alan Heathcock sa v zbierke poviedok VOLT ponára do temných zákutí ľudskej skúsenosti, no vždy s gráciou, ktorá prináša dostatok svetla. Jeho príbehy z fiktívneho mesta Krafton skúmajú témy civilizácie a divočiny, zákonnosti a bezprávia, viery a nevernosti. Heathcock majstrovsky zachytáva, ako sa ľudia vyrovnávajú s tragédiou a snažia sa nájsť rovnováhu. Jeho jazyk je úsporný, ale zároveň štedrý a bohatý, čo čitateľa vtiahne do drsného, no krásneho sveta, na ktorý nezabudne.

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    • 2022
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      "In a future America ravaged by natural disaster, pandemic, and political unrest, a fundamentalist faction emerges. As the Novae Terrae gain power, enticing civilians with bread and circuses, a civil war breaks out between its members and the US government. Mazzy Goodwin, a young soldier, only wants to find her little sister, Ava Lynn. One day, she wakes in a bomb crater to find wings emerged from her back. Has she died? Been gifted wings by God? Undergone a military experiment? The world sees a miracle. Mazzy is coaxed into seeing it as an opportunity: to become the angel-like figurehead of the revolution, in return for being reunited with her sister. Her journey leads her to New Los Angeles, where the Novae have set up the headquarters for their propaganda machine--right in the ruins of Hollywood. Aided by friends old and new, she must navigate a web of deceit while staying true to herself"--

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