Broun, Bill
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US journalist, editor and author whose first novel, Night of the Animals (2016), is set in a Near Future Dystopian London which has suffered most of the ills the twenty-first century has been able to inflict by the year 2052: demoralized by top-down economic paralysis, trapped in a surveillance-obsessed spam-choked Media Landscape that a weak (but tyrannical) monarchy cannot control, Britain is gripped by an end-times desolation (see End of the World). A nonagenarian addict to the Drug Flöt, through which he is persuaded he can talk with animals, attempts to counter a worldwide movement to massacre all animals by freeing the occupants of the London Zoo. The story, which takes place over the course of a single night, is mythopoeically urgent, but suggests no secular cure for the planet. [JC]
Bill Broun
born Los Angeles, California
works
- Night of the Animals (New York: HarperCollins/Ecco, 2016) [hb/Sarah Rae Morton]
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