Missives from the Green Campaign (Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Prize) - Softcover

Armstrong, David Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1632430444 ISBN 13: 9781632430441

Publisher: Omnidawn, 2017

Synopsis

Selected by Brian Evenson as winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Prize In a future short on fossil fuels and flora, the military compels its soldiers to carry houseplants wherever they go. To allow a plant to die is treason. Hershel Boyd is by all accounts a poor soldier, a frail, overeducated believer in the fading freedoms of a dying country. The narrator, a fellow recruit, makes it his mission to protect Hershel against all dangers. From the hazings of basic training to a botched invasion of the rainforests of South America, the two men must fight for a future where hope, not savagery, still springs eternal in the human breast.

About this title

About the Author:

DAVID ARMSTRONG is the author of the story collections Going Anywhere and Reiterations (forthcoming in 2017). His stories have appeared in publications such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Narrative Magazine, Iron Horse Literary Review, and won several awards. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife and son.

Review:

"Missives from the Green Campaign provides glimpses of a world in which the purpose of war is environmental preservation. While many of the rituals of army life remain the same, from hazing to the power dynamics of an authoritarian hierarchy, the conceptual twist of the chapbook is that each soldier must nurture a plant whose survival is intrinsic to his own."-- "The Arkansas International" (1/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)

About this edition

• Publisher: Omnidawn
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1632430444
• ISBN 13: 9781632430441
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64