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Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781960988799
Publisher: Clash Books
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In this science-fiction revision of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Kalivas lives in solitude on the Farallon Islands, off the San Francisco Bay, until the Master and his daughter M colonize his lonely realm.
Kalivas, the last free-range human, is pressed into completing dangerous and menial tasks on the Master's behalf. The new regime is disrupted when a great storm brings more cyborg mainlanders to the island shores. Can Kalivas finally break free and reclaim his islands, or will his affection for M keep him tied to the Master forever?
Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest reframes the drama as an anticolonial fantasia through futuristic gizmos, a broken continent, and a one-act play invoking the theater of the absurd. Told by the Bard's least civilized and most human creation, Nick Mamatas crafts a micro-epic for the modern era.
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