Margins
2023
First Published
3.64
Average Rating
278
Number of Pages
In this Cloud Atlas-style speculative novel, humans are the alien invaders. The reader learns through many documents―police reports, legal depositions, speech transcripts, and diary entries―that a human company named HealthCorp has attempted to enslave two alien the Laffians stranded on a planet-wide ocean and the feline HoFe living on a bed of hofellium. Now, those same aliens have come to Earth in the hopes of using the planet to safely repopulate. The overriding question becomes whether these three groups can reconcile on Earth without killing each other first...
Avg Rating
3.64
Number of Ratings
11
5 STARS
18%
4 STARS
55%
3 STARS
9%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
9%
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Author

Kelly Ann Jacobson
Kelly Ann Jacobson
Author · 7 books

Dr. Kelly Ann Jacobson is the author or editor of many published books, including her contest-winning chapbook An Inventory of Abandoned Things (Split/Lip Press), her young adult novel Tink and Wendy (Three Rooms Press), and her forthcoming young adult novel Robin and Her Misfits (Three Rooms Press). Kelly received her PhD in fiction from Florida State University and teaches as the Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing) at the University of Lynchburg and as an Instructor of speculative fiction and short story writing for Southern New Hampshire University’s online MFA in creative writing. Kelly’s short works have been published in such places as Best Small Fictions, Boulevard, Southern Humanities Review, Daily Science Fiction, Northern Virginia Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, New Plains Review, and Gargoyle.

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