Glimmering | Glimmering

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Author: Elizabeth Hand
First Published: 1997
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: 1997-2000
Setting: New York and Maine
Principal Characters: John “Jack” Finnegan, Jules Gardino, Leonard Thrope, Nellie Chandry, Marzana Chandry, Trip Marlowe, Martin Dionysos
Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction
Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Music or musicians, Death or dying, Drugs, Publishing or publishers, Disasters, Natural disasters, Terrorism or terrorists, 1990’s, AIDS, Ecology, End of the world, Religious life
Locales: New York, Maine

Glimmering follows Elizabeth Hand’s Nebula- and World Fantasy Award-winning novel of the supernatural, Wake the Moon (1995). The glimmering begins in March, 1997. The coincidence of a major solar flare with a manmade disaster destroys the ozone layer and changes the sky into an opaque light show similar to the northern lights. Other results include continuous disruptions of the earth’s magnetic field and of communications and electrical power, the disintegration of cities and governments, and the development of new diseases. Late twentieth century Western civilization...

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