Urbanski, Debbie
Entry updated 2 June 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Wonder" in Interzone for September/October 2012. Her first novel, After World (2023), set in a distant-Near-Future Ruined Earth, is narrated by an AI "story worker" who traces the experiences of a Last Man figure, herself set in place to observe the Upload of the last Homo sapiens into a Virtual Reality world, giving the planet some chance to survive. The darkness of the tale, which at points seems immeasurable, shows the influence of authors like Michel Faber or Cormac McCarthy, particularly when they place generic topoi under icy surveillance. Urbanski's first story collection is Portalmania (coll 2025). [JC]
Debbie Urbanski
born USA
works
- After World (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2023) [hb/]
- Portalmania (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2025) [coll: pb/Math Monahan/Getty Images]
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