Absence by Hudson, Andrew Dana
Absence by Hudson, Andrew Dana

Absence

In this gripping, moving, and genre-blending speculative debut, the world is unraveling from an epidemic of human...
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Author: Andrew Dana Hudson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Absence by Hudson, Andrew Dana

Absence

$34.80
Absence by Hudson, Andrew Dana

Absence

$34.80
Author: Andrew Dana Hudson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
In this gripping, moving, and genre-blending speculative debut, the world is unraveling from an epidemic of human vanishing. Two rookie agents from the Bureau of Depopulation Affairs are dispatched to small-town Kansas to investigate a woman who claims to have returned from Spontaneous Human Absence, offering answers that could change everything.

People are "popping." Disappearing, one by one, into thin air. A global cataclysm known as Spontaneous Human Absence. In a world where prospects for survival are increasingly grim, hopelessness prevails, political rifts widen, and doomsday predictions flourish.

Harvey Ellis works the night shift for the Bureau of Depopulation Affairs, an ad hoc federal agency meant to contain and catalog the crisis. Harvey's job: to investigate claims of Absence, and, if validated, issue a standard government stipend to boost morale. Still recovering from losses of his own, Harvey is content in his routine--until his life is shaken by an unexpected assignment from the central office.

A woman long thought Absent has reappeared in her hometown of Dawnville, Kansas, claiming she's been to the other side and back. But is her wild and irresistible account true, or is she just the latest false prophet, offering hope to a world desperate for it? Together with his no-BS partner, Shonda Erins, Harvey travels to Dawnville to find out.

A resonant portrait of a world beset by confusion and dismay, Andrew Dana Hudson's debut is a vividly imagined novel of cosmic proportions, examining life in a time of exception and the stories we tell to get by.

Author: Andrew Dana Hudson
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.52w x 1.51d
ISBN: 9781641297585


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2026
Publishers Weekly 04/06/2026
Foreword 04/20/2026

About the Author
Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, teacher, and critical futurist. He is the author of Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures and dozens of short stories and essays appearing in venues like Slate, Lightspeed Magazine, Long Now Ideas, and Jacobin--as well as his newsletter, www.solarshades.club. He lives in Arizona, where he teaches writing, futures thinking, and yoga.
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