My novel Apastoral: A Mistopia was published by semi-obscure, cult-riddled, somewhat bent and partially submerged underdog press Corona/Samizdat on July 15, 2022, and we wouldn't have it any other way. The novel is a dystopia of sorts, but so little time is spent on the world outside that that word - dystopia - didn't feel right. And plus, this is more Heart of a Dog (Bulgakov), or We (Zamyatin), or Riddley Walker (Hoban) or near sci-fi like McElroy's Plus, than, you know, Hunger Games (author deleted) or even 1984(well). So I called it a mistopia, a "wrong place".

It's the story, in short, of petty criminal whose punishment is to have his brain implanted into a sheep, to live out his sentence as a farm animal, amongst other such farm animals (Constock).

You can purchase it direct from the Slovenian-based publisher, right here.




Lee, 8/15/22