Flet: A Novel

TitleFlet: A Novel
Year for Search2007
AuthorsMcSweeney, Joyelle(b. 1976)
Date Published2007
PublisherFence Books
Place PublishedAlbany, NY
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Dystopia in which U.S. cities have been abandoned in face of a faked bioterrorist “Emergency” that allows the government to extend its control and further manipulate the population. A related volume is her Nylund, the Sarcographer. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007. 

Additional Publishers

Excerpts were originally published as “The Missing Cities (Excerpt from Flet a Sci-Fi Novel).” Caffeine Destiny http://www.caffeinedestiny.com/poetry/mcsweeney.html; “Novella Excerpts from Flet and Nyland.” Fairy Tale Review (No. 2? The Green Issue); and “Airlines (Excerpt from Flet a Sci-Fi Novel”) Apocryphal Text 1.4. (nd) http://www.apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/vol1_issue_4.html; “The Seed Vision (from Flet).” Cutbank Poetry 1.65 (2006): Article 55; ; and “from Flet. A Novel.” Fence 10. 1 & 2 (Fall 2007 - Winter 2008): 6-8.

Author Note

The female author (b. 1976) is a professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame

Full Text

2007 McSweeney, Joyelle (b. 1976). Flet: A Novel. Albany, NY: Fence Books. Excerpts were originally published as “The Missing Cities (Excerpt from Flet a Sci-Fi Novel).” Caffeine Destiny http://www.caffeinedestiny.com/poetry/mcsweeney.html; “Novella Excerpts from Flet and Nyland.” Fairy Tale Review (No. 2? The Green Issue); and “Airlines (Excerpt from Flet a Sci-Fi Novel”) Apocryphal Text 1.4. (nd) http://www.apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/vol1_issue_4.html; “The Seed Vision (from Flet).” Cutbank Poetry 1.65 (2006): Article 55; ; and “from Flet. A Novel.” Fence 10. 1 & 2 (Fall 2007 - Winter 2008): 6-8.

Dystopia in which U.S. cities have been abandoned in face of a faked bioterrorist “Emergency” that allows the government to extend its control and further manipulate the population. A related volume is her Nylund, the Sarcographer. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007. The female author is a professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame.