Book description
Cascade: Book I of The Sleep of Reason trilogy
120,000 words
"A near-perfect blend of implacable horror, gallows humor, and ecological apocalypse." -- Peter Watts, author of Blindsight
What does magic want?
When Vasai Singh resurrected drowned Mumbai and raised it into the clouds, the world reacted with awe and…
Why read it?
1 author picked Cascade as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A tale of the world’s end should be intense, and I love how Cascade is driven by ethical urgency, its gallows humour lurching grippingly into dead seriousness.
As ancient magic cataclysmically awakens (in a clear analogue to climate change), media tycoons, wizards, researchers, and anarchists strive and struggle. Some hope to mitigate catastrophe; others choose to unleash evil—racism, xenophobia, the sadistic thrill of the jackboot—for political gain. All politics are petty at the end of the world, but we remain sadly human.
For me, what lingers past the final page is a vision of humanity within catastrophe. If we are…
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