New Books in Science Fiction — C.A. Fletcher, "A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World" (Orbit, 2019)

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C.A. Fletcher, "A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World" (Orbit, 2019)

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C.A. Fletcher’s new novel, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World(Orbit, 2019), takes place several generations after a pandemic has turned humans into an endangered species. For Griz, the adolescent narrator, life is bounded by his family, two dogs, and the Outer Hebrides island where they hunt, fish, and farm.…

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