Amnesia Moon (Magill’s Choice: Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan Lethem
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—post-holocaust
- Time of Work: Near future
- Setting: Western United States
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Future, Dreams, California, West, U.S., Reality, San Francisco, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Mutations or mutants, Wyoming
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, Wyoming
The Story
Chaos lives in Hatfork, a Wyoming town struggling to survive in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Hatfork exists under the sway of a tyrant named Kellogg, whose dreams infiltrate the sleep of everyone who lives there. Impatient with the stagnation of the town, Chaos leaves with a young mutant girl named Melinda. Chaos and Melinda encounter several pockets of society, each with different reactions to and explanations of what happened after the nuclear war, and each with different receptivity to the dreams of Chaos and others.
In the mountains, they meet a group of...
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