Endogamy Blues

By Mark Shainblum

The neo-fascist armies of the Liberator have swept across the Americas like a plague. Montreal is in flames, and the front is less than a kilometre away.

Seventeen year-old Private Joanie Morgernstern can expect no mercy from the victors. As a Canadian soldier, an Augmented Human and a Jew, she is a blood enemy to the Liberator three times over. Aircraftman Michael Cross, 16, a technician in the Air Force of the Iroquois Six Nations is on the same hitlist. Their fanatically racist enemies will show them no quarter and no mercy.

Swept up in Canada's last, desperate attempt to stave off defeat, Joanie and Mike expect nothing but death. Instead, they find each other. --

"Mark Shainblum does military SF intelligently and gracefully in 'Endogamy Blues.'" -- Paul Di Filippo, Asimov’s Science Fiction

"(The Island Dreams anthology) closes on a high note with another of its best moments, 'Endogamy Blues' by Mark Shainblum... It’s exciting and full of interesting ideas..." -- Kit O’Connell, SFSite.com

"Shainblum creates an elaborate future in which humans on Earth have been abandoned by those who have colonized other planets... A heartfelt story." -- James Schellenberg, Challenging Destiny

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Shainblum
• Release date: Nov 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9780921101024

Mark Shainblum

Mark Shainblum is a science fiction, fantasy and graphic novel writer living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His prose fiction has appeared in magazines like On Spec, Would That It Were, Thousand Faces and the anthologies Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic(Vehicle Press, 2003)and Playing Solitaire and Other Stories (Cyber Age 2001). With John Dupuis, he was co-editor of the Aurora Award-winning anthology Arrowdeams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas, published in 1998. In comics he’s best known as the writer and co-creator of Angloman, a parody series published in two bestselling books, and later as a weekly comic strip in the Montreal Gazette. Mark also wrote and co-created the independent comic book series Northguard, and the mystery series The Haunting of MacGrath. Mark is a past-president of SF Canada, Canada’s national association of science fiction authors. He lives in Montreal with his wife Andrea and daughter Maya.

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