John Hartigan

The Last Cohort: A Novel of Dark Academia (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As a child, Olivia befriended a ghost who troubled the school playground. As a grad student in anthropology, Olivia aims to study hauntings. But her plans are stymied when she can't get funding for her research. Worse, she and her fellow grads-Veronica and Ramesh-learn their program is being defunded as political protests roil the campus.

​The department chair, Stefan Driscoll, frets as he watches his students turn into virtual zombies. He fears they are losing their humanity-imagination, empathy, and thought itself-just as the humanities are under assault on campus. He agonizes over the imminent death of his daughter Alma from colon cancer, and he still laments his long-departed wife. She died under mysterious circumstance in Spain where he was doing fieldwork.

Olivia is assigned to work in the anthropology archives over the summer. Her tasks are tedious and mind-numbing, until she stumbles upon Stefan's fieldnotes from Spain. They recount the details of a séance in which a miega conjured up his wife's spirit. Olivia realizes the séance provides a method for her own research. She enlists the grudging help of Veronica and Ramesh to conduct and record the spiritual encounter.

Then all Hell breaks loose...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blindsight Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798218741297
• Artikelnr.: 74936351

Autorenporträt

As an anthropologist, John Hartigan has worked in Spain, Mexico, and Peru. As a novelist, he takes myths from these countries and applies them to our current crises, in hopes of generating imaginative responses. For The Last Cohort, he drew from colleagues' research on ancient Mayan cosmology to depict what might happen if sacrificed Mayan warriors were resurrected, uploaded and modified by an AI, then turned loose online.

Hartigan's next novel is an epic about the Spanish Armada wrecking on the Irish coast in 1588. He started it in 2018, after finishing fieldwork in Galicia, Spain, then traveling to start another project in Galway, Ireland. He became intrigued by the deep mythical and spiritual ties between Ireland and Spain, which are rooted in a shared Celtic past. Between Wind & Water beguilingly blends fantasy and history, with moments of magical realism, grounded by gritty historical details and naturalist perspectives.

Hartigan posts updates on The Last Cohort and his forthcoming projects in his newsletter, Hartigan's Hypnagogia, free on Substack hartiganj.substack.com/