In the state of Liberty, water is rationed at alarming prices, free speech is hardly without a cost, and Texas has just declared itself its own country. Her last book, 'The Splendid City,' from Angry Robot Books, exiles a novice witch and the man she illegally turned into a cat to Liberty (formerly known as Texas), where constant parades and missing water make life interesting. 'Karen Heulers The Splendid City is a wonderful fabulation, both humorous and contemplative, about the desperate state of US politics and society. A genre-blending story of modern witchcraft, a police state and WTF characters, for fans of Alice Hoffman and Madeline Miller. A talking cat who loves craft beers, picket lines, and duping and ‘shooting’ people.Įleanor has no time for Stan and his shenanigans, because she finds herself helping another coven locate a missing witch which she thinks is mysteriously linked to the shortage of water in Liberty. Her novels include 'Glorious Plague,' about a beautiful apocalypse.

This terrifying (and yet somehow vaguely familiar) terrain is explored via Eleanor – a young woman eagerly learning about the gifts of her magic through the support of her coven.īut being a white witch is not as easy as they portray it in the books, and she’s already been placed under ‘house arrest’ with a letch named Stan, a co-worker who wronged her in the past and now exists in the form of a cat.

In this society, paranoia is well-suited because eyes and ears are all around, and they are judging. Karen Heuler - Novels and Novellas Novels and Novellas The Splendid City Heuler veers her speculative fiction toward the absurdly surreal here, introducing the ostensible protagonist only to have her get shot by a talking cat on the first page. Angry Robot, 14.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-85766-985-8 Heuler ( The Inner City) throws together a young witch.

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