Paperback, 206 pages
English language
Published Aug. 14, 2020 by Tachyon Publications.
Who is Last?
Fame is rare in Driftwood- it’s hard to get famous if you don’t stick around long enough for people to know you. But many know the guide, Last, a one-blooded survivor who has seen his world end many lifetimes ago. For Driftwood is a strange place of slow apocalypses, where continents eventually crumble into mere neighborhoods, pulled inexorably towards the center in the Crush. Cultures clash, countries fall, and everything eventually disintegrates.
Within the Shreds, a rumor goes around that Last has died. Drifters come together to commemorate him. But who really was Last?
About Driftwood Driftwood is the invention of bestselling author Marie Brennan. Mirroring the world that many people are currently living in, the Driftwood stories chronicle the struggles of survivors and outcasts to keep their worlds alive until everything changes, diminishes, and is destroyed. Driftwood is the first full-length novel in this world.
To be clear, if I'd encountered this attached to a D&D campaign setting or something when I was a teenager, it would have blown my mind. As it was, though, I felt uncomfortable with its recurring trope of racial pure-bloodedness, and thought its singular emphasis on this one guy's fame and importance made the whole thing feel a bit small and claustrophobic.
