Gomillion, Agnes
Entry updated 28 November 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author whose distant Near Future Dystopian The Record Keeper sequence beginning with The Record Keeper (2019), set almost two centuries after World War Three has devastated the planet, describes an America which has reverted to open Slavery of its non-white citizens, who are relegated to the punitive Zone of Konga. The protagonist is a slave privileged with a desk job, where she is assigned to create alt.hist rewrites of the previous decades (see George Orwell); The Seed of Cain (2022) portrays her escape, her role in freeing Konga, her betrayal, her flight, and her messianic aspirations. [JC]
Agnes Gomillion
born Georgia, USA
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series
Record Keeper
- The Record Keeper (London: Titan Books, 2019) [Record Keeper: pb/]
- The Seed of Cain (London: Titan Books, 2022) [Record Keeper: pb/]
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