Housecat turned assassin, Mort(e), and canine heroine, Sheba, must battle a horde of amphibious creatures intent on exterminating mankind in Repino's strange, moving sci-fi epic.
Robert Repino grew up in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. After serving in the Peace Corps, he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. His fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, Night Train, Hobart, The Coachella Review, and more. He lives in New York and works as an editor for Oxford University Press. D'Arc follows the novel Mort(e) and the novella Culdesac in the War With No Name series.
Praise for D'Arc"From Cordwainer Smith's Underpeople to David
Brin's Uplifted dolphins; from Puss in Boots to Brian
Jacques's Redwall, science fiction and fantasy are replete
with sentient beasts, some more humanized than others. But there
has never been another series with quite the punch and heft of
Robert Repino's War With No Name saga. Its visceral
palpability, hypnotic fatedness, and emotional gravitas make it
the War and Peace of beast fables. The latest
installment, D'Arc, carries forward the future history of this
posthuman world with searing action, unexpected twists and
brilliant new characters. Think Margaret Atwood crossed
with Robert Stone, and you are maybe halfway to Repino's
virtues."
—Paul Di Filippo, author of Lost Among the
Stars, Ribofunk and A Mouthful of Tongues, among
others
"Think The Fantastic Mr. Fox, with advanced
weaponry. Charlotte's Web, with armed combat. The
Wind in the Willows, with machetes. D'Arc is all
this and way more besides. Weaving together threads from
dozens of ideas, Robert Repino tops
his Mort(e) with an epic allegory at once
strange, frightening, funny, and altogether remarkable.
Repino's dog, cat, and beaver soldiers are nakedly real, as
honest as any characters in modern fiction. As horrible as it may
sound, may The War With No Name never end."
—Corey Redekop, author of Husk
"The War With No Name series isn't quite a parable, nor does it
rely on its novel concept to break ground. These books,
intellectual yet elusive, brutal yet tender, imagine what would
happen if the natural order of our world were to be fundamentally
disrupted. D'Arc in particular takes Repino's conceit to
its next stage of evolution. Herein, ocean beasts rise from the
deep in search of war, giant spiders terrorize assiduous beavers,
animals and humans are in the thick of a battle not just for
dominion, but extermination. It is for these reasons and more that
I get so excited when I see another entry in the series approaching
the shelves. Repino isn't just one of the best writers of his
generation, he's one of the most exciting, brave, and
unexpected. D'Arc won't just delight your senses, it will
change the way you think about storytelling."
—Samuel Sattin, author of Legend and The Silent
End
“Inventive and astounding. D'Arc maps the aftermath of
the 'war with no name' and the attempts of wizened old warrior
Mort(e) and his long-lost love, the dog Sheba, to find some kind of
happiness for themselves even as unimagined dangers threaten from
the deep. Robert Repino’s Orwellian saga is at once brutal and
hopeful as it explores post-war life, love in all its forms, and
what being a person—a new person, in a brave new world—truly
means.”
—Katharine Duckett
"Repino’s third novel in the War with No Name series continues to
deepen and expand the strange universe he’s created, one that still
hasn’t settled after the upheaval of a war between ants, animals,
and humans."
— B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog
"Repino crafts achingly real characters from housecats and doggies,
and gets you sympathizing with both sides of the in-equation. This
is a perfect example of the power of pulp, wild adventure for
domesticated humans."
—KQED Arts
"Excellent. This is weird sci-fi at its best . . . The entire
series is one of the most unique concepts in contemporary science
fiction."
—Inverse
"The action and adventure are fast and fun, and [Repino]
has successfully created a unique and compelling world. This
is a fantastically cool read."
—Bookreporter.com
"Fantastic . . . Well-drawn characters and emotional heft are
hallmarks of this unusual series about the power of myth, love, and
redemption in a dangerous time."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"This follow-up to Mort(e) finds Repino’s humanized
animals learning to navigate a new world as they work alongside
humans, mourn their past, and deal with intricate emotions,
pleasing old and new readers alike."
—Library Journal
Praise for the War With No Name series
“Mort(e) is complex, beguiling, and often bloody . . . [An] utterly
absorbing debut.”
—The Boston Globe
“Mort(e) catapults the reader into a wild, apocalyptic world . . .
A strangely moving story.”
—The Washington Post
“Marvelously droll . . . This novel is all kinds of crazy, but it
wears its crazy so well.”
—Slate
“An epic science-fiction thriller . . . Mort(e) will stick with you
long after you close the pages.”
—Tor.com
“Read this novel and you will never look at your pet the same way
again.”
—Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse and Robogenesis
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