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The Thinning
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781636142944
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Jun 2 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Stunningly wrought . . . The Thinning moves with the compressed momentum of a thriller toward a spectacular climax. --Guardian
Heart-racing . . . [An] emotive tour de force. --Australian Women's Weekly
A spine-tingling literary thriller that will keep you racing to the end. The Thinning blurs the lines between animal, human, and adaptation, and provides a gripping glimpse of our possible future through a fascinating astrological lens. An emotional tribute to the natural world. Moving. Urgent. Beautifully written.
--Karen Viggers, author of The Orchardist's Daughter
FIN GREW UP BY AN OBSERVATORY, learning about telescopes and planets, inspired by the passions of her mother and father, then leaders in their fields of astrophotography and astronomy. Those days are long over. Now Fin lives deep off the grid with a group of outliers, always on alert and ready to run.
In the outside world, things are not good: extinctions and a loss of diversity threaten what's left of the environment. With a new disaster looming, Fin finds herself thrust into an unlikely partnership with a stranger--an Incomplete named Terry. Incompletes are a new and widely distrusted breed of evolved humans. But the pair will need to work together during a dangerous journey if they are to play their part in a plan to help restore balance in the natural world--and in humankind.
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