“Haunting and luminous, How High We Go in the Dark
orchestrates its multitude of memorable voices into beautiful and
lucid science fiction that resembles a fitful future memory of our
present. An astonishing debut.” – Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta

An ancient virus is unleashed, and a climate plague ensues. The novel considers the aftermath of this event – how we adapt, the ingenuity of humankind, and where we go (physically, spiritually and mentally) when our world becomes uninhabitable. How High We Go in the Dark is, in a way, a collection of short stories. Within this structure Nagamatsu reveals the story of humanity in the near future, with characters intricately linked and woven together to form a tapestry of struggles, solutions and hope. Nagamatsu navigates grief with empathy and kindness. This is an extremely compassionate literary climate-fiction novel that I would recommend to anyone who enjoyed Cloud Atlas, Station Eleven or Cloud Cuckoo Land. – Liv