Book guide
The Dog Stars
A lonely pilot follows a radio signal across a ruined America in search of something worth living for.
Genre and trope pairingsSci-FiPost-apocalypticLiteraryTrauma recoveryLiteraryGrief journeyAdventureQuest
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About The Dog Stars
Nine years after a pandemic, pilot Hig shelters at an abandoned Colorado airfield with his dog and a survivalist neighbour. When he catches a faint radio transmission, he risks a flight beyond safety to find other life, danger, and the possibility of love.
Reading signals
- Spice
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- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- animal death
- death
- gun violence
- violence
- grief
- sexual content
- pandemic/epidemic
- murder
- blood and gore
- child death
- rape references
- cannibalism
