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The startling science fiction saga of Mort(e) continues... 
Feline war hero Mort(e) and his canine love Sheba are once again pulled from their quiet life together and thrown into the chaos of a new civilization struggling to emerge from the ashes of war. Can humans and animals truly coexist?
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Robert Repino • Hardcover • PUB DATE: May 9, 2017 • PRICE: $26.95 • Page Count: 400 • ISBN:  9781616956868 • eISBN: 9781616956875 • Soho Press
In the aftermath of the War With No Name, the Colony has been defeated, its queen lies dead, and the world left behind will never be the same. In her madness, the queen used a strange technology to uplift the surface animals, turning dogs and cats, bats and bears, pigs and wolves into intelligent, highly evolved creatures who rise up and kill their oppressors. And now, after years of bloodshed, these sentient beasts must learn to live alongside their sworn enemies—humans.

Far removed from this newly emerging civilization, a housecat turned war hero named Mort(e) lives a quiet life with the love he thought he had lost, a dog named Sheba. But before long, the chaos that they escaped comes crashing in around them. An unstoppable monster terrorizes a nearby settlement of beavers. A serial killer runs amok in the holy city of Hosanna. An apocalyptic cult threatens the fragile peace. And a mysterious race of amphibious creatures rises from the seas, intent on fulfilling the Colony’s destiny and ridding the world of all humans. No longer able to run away, Sheba and Mort(e) rush headlong into the conflict, ready to fight but unprepared for a world that seems hell-bent on tearing them apart. In the twilight of all life on Earth, love survives, but at a cost that only the desperate and the reckless are willing to pay. 

Don't miss your opportunity to preorder D'Arc and get a copy of Robert Repino's novella Culdesac! 

The bobcat Culdesac is among the fiercest warriors fighting for the Colony. Driven by revenge and notorious for his ability to hunt humans in the wild, Culdesac is the perfect leader of the Red Sphinx, an elite unit of feline assassins. With the humans in retreat, the Red Sphinx seizes control of the remote village of Milton. For the brutal Culdesac, violence is the answer to everything. But this time, he’ll need more than his claws and his guns, for what he discovers in Milton will upend everything he believes, everything he fought for, and everything he left behind.

Relentless, bloody, and unforgiving, Culdesac is the story of an antihero with no soul to lose, carving a path of destruction that consumes the innocent and the guilty alike.
Robert Repino grew up in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. After serving in the Peace Corps, he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. His fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, Night Train, Hobart, The Coachella Review, and more. He lives in New York and works as an editor for Oxford University Press. D'Arc follows the novel Mort(e) and the novella Culdesac in the War With No Name series.

Praise for the War With No Name series
“Mort(e) is complex, beguiling, and often bloody . . . [An] utterly absorbing debut.” 
—The Boston Globe

“Mort(e) catapults the reader into a wild, apocalyptic world . . . A strangely moving story.” 
—The Washington Post

“Marvelously droll . . . This novel is all kinds of crazy, but it wears its crazy so well.”
—Slate

“An epic science-fiction thriller . . . Mort(e) will stick with you long after you close the pages.”
—Tor.com

“Read this novel and you will never look at your pet the same way again.”
—Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse and Robogenesis
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Praise for D'Arc

 
"Fantastic . . . Well-drawn characters and emotional heft are hallmarks of this unusual series about the power of myth, love, and redemption in a dangerous time." 
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review 
 
"From Cordwainer Smith's Underpeople to David Brin's Uplifted dolphins; from Puss in Boots to Brian Jacques's Redwall, science fiction and fantasy are replete with sentient beasts...But there has never been another series with quite the punch and heft of Robert Repino's War With No Name saga...Think Margaret Atwood crossed with Robert Stone, and you are maybe halfway to Repino's virtues." 
—Paul Di Filippo, author of Lost Among the Stars, Ribofunk and A Mouthful of Tongues, among others
 
"Think The Fantastic Mr. Fox, with advanced weaponry. Charlotte's Web, with armed combat. The Wind in the Willows, with machetes. D'Arc is all this and way more besides...Repino's dog, cat, and beaver soldiers are nakedly real, as honest as any characters in modern fiction. As horrible as it may sound, may The War With No Name never end."
—Corey Redekop, author of Husk
 
"The War With No Name series isn't quite a parable, nor does it rely on its novel concept to break ground...D'Arc in particular takes Repino's conceit to its next stage of evolution. Herein, ocean beasts rise from the deep in search of war, giant spiders terrorize assiduous beavers, animals and humans are in the thick of a battle not just for dominion, but extermination...Repino isn't just one of the best writers of his generation, he's one of the most exciting, brave, and unexpected. D'Arc won't just delight your senses, it will change the way you think about storytelling." 
—Samuel Sattin, author of Legend and The Silent End
 
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