Loss Soup and Other Stories

<p>A journalist is invited to the fabled Dinner of Loss to drink a viscous soup made of lost and extinct things. In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch a nihilistic sea captain becalms himself on a plastic sea while in an English fishing village a senile Blackbeard reminisces about his bloodthirsty glory days. The failed conquistador Cabeza de Vaca sheds his personality on the swampy coasts of the New World and in a cabin in the woods a couple are haunted by the ghosts of <em>Homo erectus</em> Neanderthals and other extinct hominids. Elsewhere a legendary beast is dragged from a Welsh mountain lake...</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The</strong> <strong>fourteen stories in Nick Hunt's debut collection of short fiction</strong> travel from sixteenth-century Mexico to a post-collapse near future from a visionary supermarket to life on other planets. All of them revolve around different forms of loss. By turns blackly funny disquieting and fantastical <em>Loss Soup and Other Stories</em> is a journey through the Anthropocene climate chaos and the Sixth Extinction to the strange new worlds that might lie beyond.</p>