Kate Folk – författare

Linda is doing her best to lead a life that would appear normal to the casual observer. Weekdays, she earns $20 an hour moderating comments for a video-sharing platform, then rides the bus home to the windowless garage she rents on the outskirts of San Francisco. But on the last Friday of each month, she indulges her true passion, taking BART to SFO for a round-trip flight to a regional hub. The destination is irrelevant, because each trip means a new date with a handsome stranger—a stranger whose intelligent windscreens, sleek fuselages, and powerful engines make Linda feel a way that no human ever could. . . . Linda knows that she can’t tell anyone she’s sexually obsessed with planes. Nor can she reveal her belief that it’s her destiny to “marry” one of her suitors, uniting with her soulmate plane for eternity. But when an opportunity arises to hasten her dream of eternal partnership, and the carefully balanced elements of her life begin to spin out of control, she must choose between maintaining the trappings of normalcy and launching herself headlong toward the love she’s always dreamed of. Both subversive and unexpectedly heartwarming, Sky Daddy hijacks the classic love story, exploring desire, fate, and the longing to be accepted for who we truly are.

''Wonderfully weird and weirdly wonderful'' Karen Joy Fowler

''For readers who consider body horror to be a love language''New York Times''Captures the lunacy of the moment we''re living through''San Francisco ChronicleA woman uses dating apps to find a partner, despite the threat posed by ''blots'', artificial men more interested in stealing data than dating. A sculptor, trapped in a skyscraper restaurant when a violent coup erupts below, creates a perfect model of the town as it is destroyed. A curtain of void obliterates the world at a steady pace, leaving one woman to decide with whom she wants to spend eternity.

Haunting and darkly inventive, the stories in Out There deftly combine science fiction and horror to uncover an unforgettable vision of the absurdity of life in the digital age.

''The literary love child of Kafka and Camus and Bradbury penning episodes of Black Mirror'' Chang-Rae Lee, author of Native Speaker

''A full-throttle thrill: strap in!''Daily Mail

A CLASSIC STORY OF GIRL MEETS PLANE.

''Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird''RACHEL YODER, author of NIGHTBITCH''Wonderfully weird and worryingly convincing''CHARLOTTE MENDELSON, author of THE EXHIBITIONIST

''A little bit JG Ballard, a little bit Ottessa Moshfegh''DAILY MAIL

Linda tries her best to lead a normal life. But once a month she escapes to the airport to secretly indulge in her true passion: Linda is sexually attracted to planes, and believes it is her destiny to someday marry one by dying in a fiery crash.

When the opportunity arises to hasten her romantic fate, Linda must choose between the trappings of an ordinary life and succumbing to her deepest desires.

''A dog whistle for the true freaks - never have I felt so seen! I loved it''RITA BULLWINKEL, author of the Booker Prize-longlisted HEADSHOT

Fasten your seatbelts, and get ready for this year''s wildest ride