[STARRED REVIEW] "Exploring found family, adaptation, and hope in
the face of apocalypse, Brennan imbues this high-concept fantasy with a
strong emotional core. Fantasy fans will be thrilled."--Publishers
Weekly [A Best Sci Fi Book of 2020]
In this first novel set in award-winning author Marie Brennan's
incomparable Driftwood fantasy universe, enter a post-apocalyptic realm
where the apocalypse has not ended, where fragments of worlds cohere
into shifting myths. Yet even as everything fades, Drifters gather to
tell conflicting legends of Last, the guide--the one man who seemed
immortal, but may have been a fraud.
Who is Last?
Fame is rare in Driftwood--it's hard to get famous if you don't stick
around long enough for people to know you. But many know the guide,
Last, a one-blooded survivor who has seen his world end many lifetimes
ago. For Driftwood is a strange place of slow apocalypses, where
continents eventually crumble into mere neighborhoods, pulled inexorably
towards the center in the Crush. Cultures clash, countries fall, and
everything eventually disintegrates.
Within the Shreds, a rumor goes around that Last has died. Drifters come
together to commemorate him. But who really was Last? Lying liar, or
heroic savior? A mercenary, a charlatan, a legend? A man, an
immortal--perhaps even a god?
About Driftwood
Driftwood is the invention of bestselling author Marie Brennan.
Mirroring the world that many people are currently living in, the
Driftwood stories chronicle the struggles of survivors and outcasts to
keep their worlds alive until everything changes, diminishes, and is
destroyed. Driftwood is the first full-length novel in this world.
