Loss Soup and Other Stories - Hunt, Nick
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A journalist is invited to the fabled Dinner of Loss to drink a viscous soup made of lost and extinct things. In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a nihilistic sea captain becalms himself on a plastic sea, while in an English fishing village a senile Blackbeard reminisces about his bloodthirsty glory days. The failed conquistador Cabeza de Vaca sheds his personality on the swampy coasts of the New World, and in a cabin in the woods a couple are haunted by the ghosts of Homo erectus, Neanderthals and other extinct hominids. Elsewhere, a legendary beast is dragged from a Welsh mountain lake...…mehr

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A journalist is invited to the fabled Dinner of Loss to drink a viscous soup made of lost and extinct things. In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a nihilistic sea captain becalms himself on a plastic sea, while in an English fishing village a senile Blackbeard reminisces about his bloodthirsty glory days. The failed conquistador Cabeza de Vaca sheds his personality on the swampy coasts of the New World, and in a cabin in the woods a couple are haunted by the ghosts of Homo erectus, Neanderthals and other extinct hominids. Elsewhere, a legendary beast is dragged from a Welsh mountain lake... The fourteen stories in Nick Hunt's debut collection of short fiction travel from sixteenth-century Mexico to a post-collapse near future, from a visionary supermarket to life on other planets. All of them revolve around different forms of loss. By turns blackly funny, disquieting and fantastical, Loss Soup and Other Stories is a journey through the Anthropocene, climate chaos and the Sixth Extinction to the strange new worlds that might lie beyond.
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Nick Hunt's short stories and essays have been published in Dark Mountain since 2010. As a travel writer, his books include "Walking the Woods and the Water", telling the story of an eight-month walk from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul; "Where the Wild Winds Are", which explores how Europe's named winds affect landscapes, people and cultures; and most recently "Outlandish", describing four walks in Europe's 'unlikely landscapes'. He was a finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Award in 2015 and 2018. He is also the author of "The Parakeeting of London", a work of gonzo ornithology, and has written for The Guardian, The Economist, New Internationalist, Emergence, Resurgence & Ecologist, Caught By the River, Geographical and other publications. He works as an editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project, performs as a storyteller and currently lives in Bristol, in the south-west of England.