Klune, TJ
Entry updated 15 April 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1982- ) US author most whose Young Adult fiction has focused on gay and LGBTQ issues; of these, the best known is probably The House in the Cerulean Sea (2020), a complex fantasy set partly on an Island inhabited by childhood imagos of various creatures of legend (see Mythology; Supernatural Creatures); the protagonist determines to collaborate with others to save them from a grotesque world. The earlier Immemorial Year sequence beginning with Withered + Sere (2016), is sf set in a Ruined Earth version of America a century hence, where a corrupt collapsing Dystopian tyranny (not specifically but by implication a version of the Canadian government) is opposed by Mutants, talking Dogs, Robots and unaltered folk. Klune's second series, the Extraordinaries sequence beginning with The Extraordinaries (2020), is set in a cartoon-like Near Future City which the resident Superhero defends against Villains. Touchingly, Sex and gender issues (the protagonist is gay) humanize the simplistics of superhero combat. [JC]
Travis John Klune
born Roseburg, Oregon: 20 May 1982
works (highly selected)
series
Immemorial Year
- Withered + Sere (Tallahassee, Florida: DSP Publications, 2016) [Immemorial Year: pb/Kyle Thompson]
- Crisped + Sere (Tallahassee, Florida: DSP Publications, 2016) [Immemorial Year: pb/Kyle Thompson]
The Extraordinaries
- The Extraordinaries (New York: Tor Teen, 2020) [Extraordinaries: hb/David Curtis]
- Flash Fire (New York: Tor Teen, 2021) [Extraordinaries: hb/]
- Heat Wave (New York: Tor Teen, 2022) [Extraordinaries: hb/]
individual titles
- The House in the Cerulean Sea (New York: Tor, 2020) [hb/Red Nose Studio]
- Under the Whispering Door (New York: Tor, 2021) [hb/]
- In the Lives of Puppets (New York: Tor, 2023) [hb/]
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