MILTON, ONTARIO, August 12, 2022 – New literary science fiction novel The Afghan Wedding by Gary Girod is now available in bookstores everywhere.
Part contemporary scifi, part spy thriller, and part coming-of-age story, The Afghan Wedding takes a young woman from rural Afghanistan to a top-secret military base in Antarctica in a version of modern-day Earth where the U.S. military utilizes teleporters to combat terrorism around the world. The book follows her adventures as she struggles to find her place in a culture she never chose to enter and a worldwide surveillance network that becomes increasingly authoritarian as the story continues.
Girod says, “I wanted to write a book about the most unlikely protagonist in the most unusual scenario imaginable. Thus Avizeh Fatah, the young woman from the Desert of Death in Afghanistan, disappears from her wedding ceremony and reappers in Antarctica in the midst of a global conspiracy.”
Featuring a cast of colourful characters and a globe-hopping journey for the displaced Afghan, The Afghan Wedding is an engaging standalone novel for fans of literary or soft science fiction. The book is now available to purchase from bookstores everywhere in trade paperback ($21.99 CAD, ISBN 978-1-928011-77-4) and ebook ($4.99, ISBN 978-1-928011-78-1) formats, including Amazon, Chapters/Indigo, and Barnes & Noble.
The author and publisher Brain Lag will be hosting a livestreamed launch party for the book this Saturday, August 13 at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Twitch. It will feature an interview with the author, a reading, and Q&A with the chat.
The launch party is happening as part of When Words Collide, Calgary, Alberta-based literary convention. Girod will be hosting various writing-related panels during the convention in addition to the launch party.
Gary Girod was born in the woods of Oregon sometime during the last century. He fell in love with stories, true and fiction. In January 2019, he founded the French History Podcast, which covers the history of France from three million years ago to present. In 2020 Brain Lag published his first book, The Maiden Voyage of New York City. In 2021 he received his doctorate in European history from the University of Houston, writing about the origins of the mass domestic surveillance states in Britain and France. He currently divides his time between writing fiction, world-travelling and wearing a suit while monologuing about the deeds of dead people.
The Afghan Wedding is science fiction and fantasy publisher Brain Lag’s thirty-seventh title and is its seventh release in 2022. Media inquiries and requests to contact the author may be directed to publishing@brain-lag.com.
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