What's Left of Us

For readers of Emily St. John Mandel and Kazuo Ishiguro, a mythic dystopian SF novel set in a drowned future Britain about what survives when civilization falls — the stories humanity makes, and the people broken enough to carry them. In the sealed domes above Britain's floodwaters, the New Gods have solved disease, hunger, the weather — everything except the question of what life is for. Below, in the flooded archipelago that was once Norfolk, Pilgrim sails between island communities — healer, storyteller, host to half a dozen voices that have argued in his skull since his parents were killed. A new voice has joined them, calling herself the Lady, and what she wants he has spent years refusing to give. Inside the Northampton dome, Antheia — eight feet tall, ageless, barely containing her grief — watches her son condemned to die by the system that promised her forever. She is done. What sets them in motion — a myth, a golden-haired boy, and the Marshlands' oldest story — will change both worlds beyond recognition.