From the famous author of Singularity comes a unique and bold account of rebellion, political protest, and a young woman's unwavering belief in a better world.
Seventeen-year-old Mildie is from the suburbs, a place behind the mountains where the soil is rich in corpses, and where the outcast mothers and daughters of the community live-without rights, care, or legal status.
But Meld refuses to accept the status quo, revolting with some friends against the government's injustice.After being arrested, imprisoned, and tortured, Milde is eventually offered one last option: either be publicly executed or, as part of an experiment, be launched into space, into a black hole called a mass. The bloc chooses, preferring to confront its deep depths and unity rather than hurt the morale of its exhausted allies back home.
Horizon of Event is a fascinating existential novel, dark as deep space, that combines the collapse and expansion of myth and reality, interwoven with reflections on exile, oppression, solidarity, trauma, and loss.
