{"product_id":"ghostlands","title":"Ghostlands by Andrew Fox","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is a pre-sale, available September 15, 2026\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the 2026 Ark Prize for best novel.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMushrooming Time\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrancesco Helios, a groundskeeper in New Shining Capital, runs a “mower,” a seventy-ton leveling machine that keeps the Lawn free of the bloom of mushrooming monuments. Like an unruly yard, structures shove their way up through the turf: the obelisk of the Washerman Monument, the temple of “Old Frog Face,” and a thousand other stubborn relics from a half-recollected past that refuse to stay mowed down.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile Francesco is mowing, a ghostly woman appears on the Lawn. Unlike other human ghosts reborn from the past, the woman recognizes Francesco. She calls him by a name he doesn’t recognize, but that resonates. Timebreaker.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoon Francecso is catapulted to dockyards cluttered with mushrooming battleships and across the country to plains of ghostly buffalo, all with a madman on his trail who seeks to transform Francesco into a “grubber,” dedicated to the eradication of CAHSPEI—Chronologically Anomalous Human-Seeming Phenomenon (Emergent-Insubstantial)—that is, to the murder of human ghosts from the past. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYet if the Timebreaker is real—and he is the one— then maybe even a lowly groundskeeper can save his family from ruin, himself from oblivion—and, in the process, wrench humanity from the suicidal rubber room of rebounding time his mushroom-haunted world has become.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAndrew Fox's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e novel, \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFat White Vampire Blues\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, was selected for the Lord Ruthven Award for Best Vampire Novel and his novel, \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Good Humor Man, or, Calorie 3501\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, was selected by \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e magazine as one of the Ten Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of the Year. Fox has taught children's theater, managed a statewide food assistance program, run a campaign against celebratory gunfire, and briefly sold Saturn cars. He currently lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and three sons while working for a federal law enforcement agency.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTrade Paperback ISBN: 9798901160473\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 45lb cream paper, UV grit cover coating\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ark Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43510661120048,"sku":"ARK-GHOST-PB","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/4398\/9040\/files\/Ghostlands_web.webp?v=1787866729","url":"https:\/\/passage.press\/products\/ghostlands","provider":"Passage Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}