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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: After the fall
  name:
    name part: Ashton, Edward
    name part: (Science fiction writer)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: Science fiction.
  genre: Satirical fiction.
  genre: Humorous fiction.
  genre: Fiction.
  genre: Novels.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: 277 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Part alien invasion story, part buddy comedy, and part workplace satire, After The Fall by Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (inspiration for the film Mickey 17), asks an important question: would humans really make great pets? Humans must be silent. Humans must be obedient. Humans must be good. All his life, John has tried to live by those rules. Most days, it's not too difficult. A hundred and twenty years after The Fall, and a hundred years after the grays swept in to pick the last dregs of humanity out of the wreckage of a ruined world, John has found himself bonded to Martok Barden nee Black Hand, one of the "good" grays. Sure, Martok is broke, homeless, and borderline manic, but he's always treated John like an actual person, and sometimes like a friend. It's a better deal than most humans get. But when Martok puts John's bond up as collateral against an abandoned house in the woods that he hopes to turn into a wilderness retreat for wealthy grays, John learns that there are limits to Martok's friendship. Soon he finds himself caught between an underworld boss who thinks Martok is something that he very much is not, a girl who was raised by feral humans and has nothing but contempt for pets like John, and Martok himself, whose delusions of grandeur seem to be finally catching up with him. Also, not for nothing, something in the woods has been killing people"-- Provided by publisher.
  target audience: adult
  note: Edward Ashton.
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial beings
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Human-alien encounters
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Pets
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Friendship
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Social classes
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestres
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: Rencontres avec les extraterrestres
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: Animaux familiers
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: Amitié
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: Classes sociales
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial beings
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Pets
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Friendship
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3601.S567 A38 2026
  classification: 813.54
  identifier: 9781250375650
  identifier: 1250375657
  identifier: 9781250376220
  identifier: 2025040749
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250903
    record change date: 20260318181141.5
    record identifier: in00005694385
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng