Elizabeth Hand's New Book 'Fire' Affirms Her Love For Apocalypse & Disasters

Elizabeth Hand, the author of popular crime novels induced by punk culture, has released her latest work "Fire" a collection of stories, essays and an insight into her mind via question and answers. It revolves around the central character of her fiction work, Cass Neary.

According to the Portland Press Herald, topics like the apocalypse, catastrophe, dystopia and natural calamities are recurring elements of Hand's writing. She has also been well known for her sharp reviews of contemporary literature for The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy among many other publications.

With all her fictions centered around the main protagonist Cass Neary, Hand has earned mostly positive reviews from readers. Some of her previous novels, "Glimmering", "Waking the Moon", "The Saffron Gatherers" and "Kronia" all dealt with the various layers of time frame, thinking, cause and effect cycle, and unattended depth of human desires. She is already honored with the World Fantasy Award and science fiction's Nebula for her exceptional literary works.

According to the Literary Hub, Cass Neary, the main lead in most of Hand's novels, is a whiskey and crank-addicted figure who keeps taking photographs of random objects at the helm and also of extreme situations like war, destruction, and natural calamities. She turns them into work of eerie elegance through the lens of her "Konica", giving them a different perspective.

When asked whether Cass can be modeled as someone against the suppression and sexist turbulence the world is presumed to be headed to in the Trump era of presidential rule, Hand said, "Cass isn't a good organizer. She's a lone wolf. She sees herself as amoral but she recognizes evil when she sees it because she's aware of the role it's played in her own life. Rage is an appropriate reaction."

In Hand's next novel, Cass will be seen facing a group of white supremacists in Sweden. In the previous three, she was fighting a lone maniac in coastal Maine, Scandinavian cynics in Norway and Finland, and crime lords in London.

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