Flet: A Novel

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 No longer available on the internet; “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) No longer available on the internet; “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.