McGill, Robert
Entry updated 16 January 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1976- ) Canadian author, active from around 2000. He is of sf interest for his third novel, A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life (2022), set in a Near Future world in which the only cure for an ongoing Pandemic is a process known as flatpacking. A diseased person's body is dehydrated, filled with a poison fluid claimed to be restorative, and the resulting flattened package sent from Eastern Europe, where the process had originated, to needy folk in North America. But the fluid leaks fatally. The Canadian protagonist, convinced she wishes to commit Suicide, hopes to spend her last hours with a seeping, conversational flatpack, and to die in peace. But she proves immune, and the reburgeoning of the flattened quasi-entity she has purchased into a man with a past and future ramifies fruitfully. [JC]
Robert McGill
born Wiarton, Ontario: 1976
works (highly selected)
- A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life (Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Books, 2022) [pb/]
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