Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel

Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel

"Archetypes of the cowboy story, tropes drawn from sci-fi, love letters, diaries, confessions all abound in this relentlessly engaging tale. Dodson has quite brilliantly exposed the gears and cogs whirring in the novelistâ€™s imagination. It is a mad and beautiful thing.â€
--Keith Donohue,Â TheÂ Washington Post

Bats of the RepublicÂ is anÂ illuminatedÂ novel of adventure, featuringÂ hand-drawn maps and natural history illustrations,Â subversive pamphlets and science-fictional diagrams, and even a nineteenth-century novel-within-a-novelâ€”an intrigue wrapped in innovative design.

Â Â Â In 1843,Â fragile naturalistÂ Zadock Thomas must leave his beloved in Chicago to deliver a secret letterÂ to an infamous general on the front lines of the war over Texas. The fate of the volatile republic, along with Zadockâ€™s future, depends on his mission.Â When a cloud of bats leads him off the trail, he happens upon something impossible...
Â Â Â Three hundred years later, the world has collapsed and theÂ remnants of humanity cling to a strange society of paranoia.Â Zeke Thomas has inherited a sealed envelope from his grandfather, an esteemed senator.Â When that letter goes missing, ZekeÂ engages a fomenting rebellion that could free himâ€”if it doesnâ€™t destroy his relationship, his family legacy, and the entire republic first.
Â Â Â As their stories overlap and history itself begins to unravel, a war in time erupts between a lost civilization, a forgotten future, and the chaos of the wild. Bats of the RepublicÂ is a masterful novel of adventure and science fiction, of elliptical history and dystopian struggle, and, at its riveting core, of love.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-10-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Doubleday
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-10-06
Format	Kindle eBook

Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel

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