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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE
The long-awaited sequel to No Gods, No Monsters from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull, We Are the Crisis sees humans and monsters clash as civil rights collide with preternatural forces.
Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca's old wolf pack have begun to go missing without a trace.
The world has undergone many changes in the years since monsters came out of the shadows. An anti-monster group known as the Black Hand has started to organize across the United States. In response, pro-monster organizations have been growing in numbers and militancy. Targeted killings of suspected monsters and their allies, monsters spirited away in the dead of night, and the beginnings of pro-monster legislation are all signs of a cosmic shift on the horizon. Is there any hope for lasting peace? Or are these events just precursors to a devastating monster-human war?
Meanwhile, beneath it all, two ancient orders escalate their mysterious conflict, revealing dangerous secrets about the gods and the very origins of magic in the universe ...
About the author
Cadwell Turnbull is the author of
The Lesson and
No Gods, No Monsters. His short fiction has appeared in
The Verge,
Lightspeed,
Nightmare,
Asimov's Science Fiction, and several anthologies, including
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019.
The Lesson was the winner of the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award in the debut category and
No Gods, No Monsters won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Speculative Fiction. Turnbull lives in Lafayette, IN.
