Fantasy with both explicit dystopia and eutopian elements. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology in which the protagonist, Zigsa, plays a significant role. The world in the story appears to be mostly a desert, and Zigsa has been rescued from the Test to Destruction Centre by dead friends but must walk across the desert to reach Arfabad, a eutopian area where the climate has not changed.
BT - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures C6 -The female author, who has a D.Phil. from Oxford and lives in India, was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, of Indian parents who returned to India in 1979. She teaches English at Jadavpur University.
C7 - 2021 CY - Albuquerque, NM DA - 01/2021 LA - eng N2 -Fantasy with both explicit dystopia and eutopian elements. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology in which the protagonist, Zigsa, plays a significant role. The world in the story appears to be mostly a desert, and Zigsa has been rescued from the Test to Destruction Centre by dead friends but must walk across the desert to reach Arfabad, a eutopian area where the climate has not changed.
PB - World Weaver Press PP - Albuquerque, NM PY - 2021 SN - 978-1-734054521 SP - 216 EP - 34 T2 - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures TI - “Arfabad” ER -