Animal Spiral

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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The post-colonial birth, life, and death of the collective consciousness known as the Animal.Middle-aged streamer twins in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, are the first human beings to successfully connect—sharing their consciousness across 34 translucent cables. In that moment, the Animal is born, an intracerebral force that quickly grows to encompass anthills of synaptically entwined bodies, a floating library kitchen redolent of rice and beans far above the Mississippi river, and a transhuman compound in a future Cuba on the Isle of Youth. Circling back and forth and ever progressing, Animal Spiral moves through 400 years of human, and then post-human history, beginning with a revolution on the streets of San Juan and ending with five brilliant siblings: the Squash (humanoid), Calima (beetles), Yemayá (eels), Coatlicue (serpents), and Juracán (anthropomorphic birds), who have millions of bodies and all the world’s intelligence, but only want to no longer be alone. This is a buoyant, joyous ode to possibility, a warning about the dangers of neglecting what makes us human, and an astonishing exercise of the flexibility and capacity of liminal spaces. Loneliness is a collective disease! We defend our right to madness! Brave are not the ones who resist; brave are the ones who let go!

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-23
Mått129 x 198 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor448
FörlagCharco Press
ISBN9781917260329
ÖversättareMarya, Katie

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Luis Othoniel Rosa is a Puerto Rican writer from Bayamón. He studied at the University of Puerto Rico and holds a PhD from Princeton University, and his work engages with questions of literature, politics and form.Katie Marya is the author of Sugar Work , Editor’s Choice for the 2020 Alice James Book Award. Her poetry, nonfiction and translations have appeared in AGNI , North American Review and Fence . She teaches writing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

"In the tradition of the civilizational sagas of Isaac Asimov, and Kim Stanley Robinson, Rosa’s novel contemplates a future in which the collective replaces the individual as the locus of our most intimate desires and fears." —Jeff Lawrence , author of THE ANXIETIES OF EXPERIENCE: THE LITERATURES OF THE AMERICAS FROM WHITMAN TO BOLAÑO"One of the most brilliant young writers of our time." —Marta Aponte Alsina , author of LA MUERTE FELIZ DE WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS"A master work capable of redeeming a broken world." —Carlos Fonseca , author of AUSTRAL"Animal Spiral takes readers on a ride from the roots of human consciousness to modernity and beyond (…). More than science fiction, Animal Spiral is speculative anarchism with shades of Luisa Capetillo, William Burroughs and Octavia Butler." —"Dr. Michael Cucher, University of Puerto Rico"