Life on the Preservation
By Jack Skillingstead
Discover what’s on the inside on
28th May (US &
Can) and 6th June (UK)
£7.99 (UK) ISBN 978-1-78108-116-7
$7.99/$9.99 (US & CAN) ISBN 978-1-78108-117-4
Available in paperback and ebook
Ted Kosmatka, author of The
Games and Prophet of Bones called
it “one of the best sci-fi novels I’ve ever read” and it's one of Kirkus Reviews' picks for May - Jack Skillingstead’s Life on the Preservation
is coming to bookstores and online later this month!
Inside the Seattle
Preservation Dome it’s always the Fifth of October, with the city caught in an
endless time loop. “Reformed” graffiti artist Ian Palmer is the only one who
knows the truth, and he is desperate to wake up the rest of the city before the
alien Curator of the human museum erases his identity forever.
Small town
teenager Kylie is one of the few survivors to escape the apocalypse outside.
Now she must make her way across the blasted lands to destroy the Preservation.
But once inside, she meets Ian, and together they discover that Preservation
reality is even stranger than it already appears.
A writer of
extraordinary ability; the promise of Skillingstead’s previous short fiction is
here transformed into an exceptional novel about post-apocalyptic survival and
alien occupation.
With a US cover by
award-winning artist Vincent Chong and a design-led UK cover by Pye Parr, Life on the Preservation is a story of
vibrant humanity overcoming extraordinary odds.
About the Author
Jack Skillingstead grew up in a working class neighbourhood
south of Seattle. He dropped out of college to work in a cannery in Alaska,
later travelling to Maine and then returning to the Pacific northwest.
Skillingstead won a writing competition sponsored by Stephen King in 2000, and
was a finalist for the Sturgeon Award in 2004. He has published more than
thirty short stories in publications including Asimov’s, F&SF and Realms of Fantasy. His work has also
appeared in various Year’s Best
volumes and Solaris Rising.
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