Cascade

<p><strong><em>Cascade</em>: Book I of <em>The Sleep of Reason</em> trilogy</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>120000 words</strong></p><p> </p><p>A near-perfect blend of implacable horror gallows humor and ecological apocalypse. - Peter Watts author of Blindsight</p><p> </p><p><strong>What does magic want?</strong></p><p> </p><p>When Vasai Singh resurrected drowned Mumbai and raised it into the clouds the world reacted with awe and wonder - and no small amount of fear. As with the climate crisis believed to have caused the Cascade resurgent magic proved lucky for some a disaster for many others and a source of hope and dread for everyone else.</p><p> </p><p>A generation has passed since the Cascade transformed the world smashing the tectonic plates of the political landscape and infesting the wilderness with demons and shriekgrass.</p><p> </p><p>In Ottawa a scandal-plagued government clings to power kept afloat by the manipulations of its precognitive political rainman Ian Mallory. But when his predictions signal only catastrophe ahead the magic-loathing photojournalist Tobias Fletcher land rights activist Jonah Augustine his ex-wife climate scientist Blythe Augustine and emoji-spell wielding intern Sujay Krishnamurthy must overcome ideology and bureaucracy to save a future from a present whose agenda spells only doom.</p><p> </p><p>Set in a terrifying but all-too believable near future and leavened with a dry wit Cascade features a cast of fully-realized characters drawn into conflict with each other as they each strive to do the right thing.</p><p> </p><p>But who can know what the right thing is when every choice leads to disaster?</p>