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The Book of Koli

(2020)
(The first book in the Rampart Trilogy series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2020 Philip K Dick Award (nominee)

'ASTONISHING' Locus, 'ENTHRALLING' Guardian, 'CAPTIVATING' Kirkus
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD***

The Book of Koli begins a breathtakingly original new trilogy set in a strange and deadly world of our own making.

Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognisable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, the Shunned men will.

Koli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. He believes the first rule of survival is that you don't venture too far beyond the walls.

He's wrong.

'A CAPTIVATING START TO WHAT PROMISES TO BE AN EPIC POST-APOCALYPTIC FABLE' Kirkus

'KOLI EMBARKS UPON A JOURNEY AS PERILOUS AS IT IS ENLIGHTENING' Guardian

'THE BEST THING I'VE READ IN A LONG TIME. I LOVED IT' Joanne Harris

'INGENIOUS' Helen Marshall, World Fantasy Award-winning author

'DEEPLY ENGAGING' C. A. Fletcher, author of A Boy And His Dog at the End of the World

'ASTONISHING STORYTELLING POWER WITH PLAINSPOKEN LANGUAGE, HEARTBREAKING CHOICES, AND SINCERITY LIKE AN ARROW TO THE HEART' Locus

Look out for the next novels in the trilogy:
The Trials of Koli and The Fall of Koli


Genre: Science Fiction

Praise for this book

"A thought-provoking and deeply engaging story ... profoundly and doggedly humane." - C A Fletcher

"This is a BEAUTIFUL book. Gripping, engaging, and absolutely worth the time it takes to burrow yourself into its reality. I can't recommend it highly enough." - Seanan McGuire

"An ingenious, dizzily provocative novel . . . Carey invents a fantastic far-future world, finding humanity in unlikely places." - Helen Marshall


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