Hoffmeister, Pedro
Entry updated 27 February 2023. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US athlete, poet and author Peter Brown Hoffmeister (? - ), whose books under his unaltered name are nonfantastic; he is of sf interest for the Young Adult American Afterlife (2022), set in a Near Future Pacific Rim of America soon after the Disaster in this vulnerable region of an enormous earthquake whose magnitude (9.2 on the Richter scale) is well within expectations (the 9.9 magnitude quake off Chile in 1960 being the most extreme yet recorded). The region's infrastructure is demolished; the young protagonist, seeking her cult-corrupted mother, has a task to find her. Eventually there is a family reunion in the ruins of America. [JC]
Peter Brown Hoffmeister
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works (highly selected)
- American Afterlife (New York: Crooked Lane Books, 2022) [hb/]
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