Missives from the Green Campaign

Selected by Brian Evenson as winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Prize In a future short on fossil fuels and flora, the military compels its soldiers to carry houseplants wherever they go. To allow a plant to die is treason. Hershel Boyd is by all accounts a poor soldier, a frail, overeducated believer in the fading freedoms of a dying country. The narrator, a fellow recruit, makes it his mission to protect Hershel against all dangers. From the hazings of basic training to a botched invasion of the rainforests of South America, the two men must fight for a future where hope, not savagery, still springs eternal in the human breast.

About the author

DAVID ARMSTRONG is the author of the story collections Going Anywhere and Reiterations (forthcoming in 2017). His stories have appeared in publications such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Narrative Magazine, Iron Horse Literary Review, and won several awards. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife and son.

Product details

• Authors: David M. Armstrong, David Michael Armstrong
• Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781632430441
• ISBN: 978-1-63243-044-1
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 173 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 91 g
• Series: Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chap; The Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Prize; Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chap; The Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Prize
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies