ARGONAUT BOOKS

A meditative, postapocalyptic noir, 'Mevlido's Dreams' is an urgent communiqué from a far-future reality of irreversible environmental damage and civilizational collapse. Mevlido is a double agent working for the police and living in the last habitable city on the planet, a sprawling abyssal ruin marked by war and ruled by criminals. Suspended in the bardo between his loyalty to the surveillance state and to the anarchists, communists, and other rebels he monitors, Mevlido clings to life and hope - barely - in the city's vast slums, haunted by the memory of the wife he failed to save during th...Read More