Luka owns and edits the City’s only newspaper he’s always looking for his next story. The people in the City don’t move on until everyone on Earth has forgotten them. Luka Sims is a resident in the City, which is where people go when they die but there are still people on Earth who remember them. Her supplies are running low, and if she doesn’t find food and fuel soon, she’ll die. However, before long, Laura’s radio stops working and the power fails. Coca-Cola wants to use polar ice to manufacture its soft drinks since the ice is melting anyway. The first is Laura Byrd, a scientist working in an Antarctic research station for Coca-Cola. Two storylines run concurrently through The Brief History of the Dead, and so there are two protagonists. He received his MFA in 1997 from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he taught after he graduated. He also writes short stories for children. Brockmeier is an American author of literary and fantasy novels.
Nominated for numerous awards, it won the 2006 Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction.
The Brief History of the Dead (2006), a post-apocalyptic fantasy novel by Kevin Brockmeier, follows the story of humans trapped in purgatory between the living and the dead, and what happens when their mysterious city starts to shrink.
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