The Last Catastrophe: Stories -- Allegra Hyde, Paperback

A hopeful, speculative short story collection about how humanity grapples in a world transformed by climate change.

"Dazzling, inventive, and glinting with dark humor." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun

A vast caravan of RVs roams the United States. A girl grows a unicorn horn, complicating her small-town friendships and big city ambitions. A young lady on a spaceship bonds with her AI warden while trying to avoid an arranged marriage. In Allegra Hyde's universe nothing is as it seems, yet the challenges encountered in these pages mirror those we face in our modern age. Spanning the length of our very solar system, the fifteen stories in this collection explore a myriad of potential futures through the concept of "global weirding," planetary and social disruptions due to climate change. In unexpected and genre-defying ways, this revelatory collection reminds us that our world is precious, and that protecting it has the potential to bring us all together.

Author: Allegra Hyde
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/28/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780593315262

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/30/2023
Booklist 03/01/2023 pg. 25
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2023

About the Author
ALLEGRA HYDE is the author of the novel Eleutheria and the story collection Of This New World, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, The Best Small Fictions, The Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere. She lives in Ohio and teaches at Oberlin College.