The Offset

by Calder Szewczak; Natasha Calder; Emma Szewczak

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Pub Date 14 Sep 2021 | Archive Date 30 Jul 2021

Angry Robot

Sci Fi & Fantasy

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Description

It is your eighteenth birthday and one of your parents must die. You are the one who decides. Who do you pick?

In a dying world, the Offset ceremony has been introduced to counteract and discourage procreation. It is a rule that is simultaneously accepted, celebrated and abhorred. But in this world, survival demands sacrifice so for every birth, there must be a death.

Professor Jac Boltanski is leading Project Salix, a ground-breaking new mission to save the world by replanting radioactive Greenland with genetically-modified willow trees. But things aren’t working out and there are discrepancies in the data. Has someone intervened to sabotage her life’s work?

In the meantime, her daughter Miri, an anti-natalist, has run away from home. Days before their Offset ceremony where one of her mothers must be sentenced to death, she is brought back against her will following a run-in with the law. Which parent will Miri pick to die: the one she loves, or the one she hates who is working to save the world?

File Under: Science Fiction [ Only One Leaves | The Choice is Yours | Last Hope | Counting Down ]

Advance Praise

“Thrilling, terrifying and beautifully crafted, The Offset is the perfect science-fiction novel for our times. I devoured it.”

– Angela Saini, author of Inferior

“Shows how anti-natalism could also take a dystopian turn... even views aimed at reducing suffering can increase it if fanatics seize control“

– David Benatar, World-leading anti-natalist and author of Better Never to Have Been

“A prophetic, urgent, gripping read that throws into question what saving the world really means. A tender warning of a book, lest our efforts become as futile as our tragedies“

– Natalia Theodoridou, World Fantasy Award Winner and Nebula Finalist

“A bare-knuckle punch to the heart. Calder Szewczak made me suffer – brilliantly“

– Chris Panatier, author of The Phlebotomist

“Thrilling, terrifying and beautifully crafted, The Offset is the perfect science-fiction novel for our times. I devoured it.”

– Angela Saini, author of Inferior

“Shows how anti-natalism could also...

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Marketing Plan

- Widespread review coverage in major print and online outlets, in general fiction and SF/F press.

- Author interviews, blogposts, and interviews in online media and bookblogs

- Radio and...