Nagamatsu, Sequoia
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1982- ) US academic, editor and author who began publishing work of interest with "Kenta's Posthumous Chrysanthemum" in New Delta Review for 2010, which appeared in his first collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (coll 2016). He is of sf interest for his first novel, How High We Go in the Dark (2022), in which a deadly Pandemic is caused when a virus escapes from the remains of a newly exhumed prehistoric human, and begins topologically to distort internal organs, focusing mostly on children. The tale initially focuses on the coping mechanisms of Homo sapiens in the transformed planet, with Robot dogs voicing dead relatives, while memorial sites proliferate. Eventually, though other alternatives are explored, the survival of the species is seen to depend on the Colonization of Other Worlds. Some hope is proffered that we will not destroy them in turn. [JC]
Jeremy Sequoia Nagamatsu
born Ventura, California: 19 January 1982
works
- How High We Go in the Dark (New York: William Morrow, 2022) [hb/]
collections and stories
- Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (New York: Black Lawrence Press, 2016) [coll: pb/]
- The Songs of Your Decay (place not given: Day One, 2016) [story: ebook: na/Hannah Perry]
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