Bad Vibes: Octavia Butler meets Gail Honeyman in this riotous eco-satire

by Aja Barber

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I find it funny that London still has street buskers. Like the band on the Titanic, buskers will play us straight through a mass extinction event.

THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER meets ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE in this eco-satire spinning cli-fi on its head as it takes the emotional temperature of our era...

Hope is coming of age during the uncoming of an age. Her professor parents have been exiled from their hometown for speaking truth to the powers behind the climate apocalypse. And when not casually surviving a mass extinction event, she's playing second-fiddle to her white and blindingly blonde frenemy Ali.

A decade later, Hope has clawed her way into a career as the uncredited mastermind behind the biggest charity on Earth. That is until she attends a super-luxe fundraising retreat targeting repentant billionaires who are looking for their spiritual awakening...

A riotous parody of power, BAD VIBES is about the struggle of tending to our hope while the world around us crumbles into a steaming cesspool of white supremacy and single-use plastic.

For readers of SEVERANCE by Ling Ma and SUCH A FUN AGE by Kiley Reid

  • ISBN10 1840918527
  • ISBN13 9781840918526
  • Publish Date 17 July 2025
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
  • Imprint BRAZEN
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 224
  • Language English