Esquire just published an amazing list of the top 30 scifi books of 2024 and we are so pleased to see Joel Dane’s THE RAGPICKER on it. So many great books here be sure to check out the full list.
This novel is dark, sometimes terribly violent, and unflinching, but it is also hopeful, wired with a kind of caring that never lectures or hectors but observes, relates, and asks: Is this how we want to be with each other?
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The Ragpicker
The Ragpicker wanders the lush, deserted Earth, haunted by failing avatars and fragmented texts. He’s searching for traces of his long-dead husband but his journey is interrupted by a girl, Ysmany, fleeing her remote village. Together they cross the flourishing, treacherous landscape towards sanctuary. Yet the signals and static of the previous age echo in the Ragpicker’s mind and whisper in the girl’s dreams, drawing them toward the gap between map and territory—while offering precious hope.
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