num_pages: 256
description: With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience Kate Folks debut short story collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace forcing Earths remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. And in the title story originally published in The New Yorker a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by blots preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. Meanwhile in a poignant companion piece a woman and a blot forge a genuine albeit doomed connection.Prescient and wildly imaginative Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Each story beats with its own fierce heart and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction.
language: English
title: Out There
publisher: Random House