The Essentials

By David Tromblay

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Description

The not-too-distant future. The global population reaches ten billion, leaving the planet at its breaking point. The population is being thinned; its people, their professions, and their health are reclassified: Essential or Nonessential.

Jonathan Shaddox works as a medical courier for a healthcare giant, navigating the crumbling remains of what had been great American cities.

This was once a work of fiction.

 

BOOK DETAILS

ISBN: 978-1-952600-06-7

Publication date: 21 January 2021

Paperback price: 18

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING

Whenever an author abandons traditional storytelling structure, things can get dicey. Unless they pull it off, and Tromblay nails it, offering an engrossing, terrifying story about crumbling cities and a draconian health care system, which, all told, feels pretty damned prescient.

– Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse

A resonant parable for our sickened age – taut, eloquent, and frightening. It may be set in the 2030s and '40s, but it couldn't be more at home in 2021.

– David Leo Rice, author of A ROOM IN DODGE CITY and ANGEL HOUSE