Oppegaard's second novel, Wormwood, Nevada ( 2009), inhabits a not dissimilar territory: a burned-out western town after a Disaster – in this case a meteorite – has dislodged human beings from the daylight, civilized world. For five years Earth has suffered under a "disease" or perhaps recognition known as the Despair, which has caused the Suicide of most of the world's population their bodies are routinely gathered up by a group known as the Collectors for reasons clearly inimical to the survival of Homo sapiens, but the Invention of a cure for Despair may save our species, and redeem what has rapidly become a Ruined Earth. (1979- ) US author whose first novel, The Suicide Collectors ( 2008), radically mutates an old horror trope – the corpse-devouring ghoul – into a Near Future sf tale of considerable force. The Town Built on Sorrow David Oppegaard 2017 Sixteen-year-old high school reporter Harper Spurling unknowingly befriends a teenage serial killer who is.
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