Moss, Sarah
Entry updated 13 November 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1975- ) Scottish author whose sf novel, Cold Earth (2009), set in the very Near Future, movingly depicts the fate – indirectly, through letters they send off into the void – of six archaeologists trapped in Greenland in winter by a planet-wide Pandemic as the End of the World looms. In Ghost Wall (2018), a single geographical point hauntedly connects a stone age adolescent (see Prehistoric SF; Ruins and Futurity) with the daughter of a contemporary archaeologist, in a manner evocative of the work of Alan Garner. Without entering the fantastic, Summerwater (2020), set in unending rain in the north of Britain at the summer solstice, conveys a powerful sense of imminence: the families depicted in a holiday camp in Scotland (see Zone), and the world itself, seem to have reached the end of things. [JC]
Sarah Moss
born Glasgow, Scotland: 1975
works (selected)
- Cold Earth (London: Granta Books, 2009) [pb/]
- Ghost Wall (London: Granta Books, 2018) [hb/uncredited]
- Summerwater (London: Picador, 2020) [hb/Mel Four/Picador]
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