Lethe Press, Day 18 Giveaway: Green Thumb by Tom Cardamone

** Congrats to SULA and CK for winning the giveaway! **
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To celebrate On Top Down Under Book Review’s 3rd blog-versary, Steve Berman and Lethe Press have kindly offered to give away a book a day during the entire month of October. 
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All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on the bottom of each post. If you receive a spam notification while commenting, no worries. We will see it and move it to the appropriate post. 
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Good luck to all who enter and make sure you check back daily to see the next giveaway!
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Join us in sending a huge thank you to Steve and Lethe Press for the generosity in helping us celebrate our 3rd year!
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Green ThumbGreen Thumb by Tom Cardamone

 

Mutability blooms in the Florida Keys after the Red War and the genie boxes. King Pelicans with the brains of scientists and a single human hand in place of one webbed foot rule the ruins of half-drowned Miami. Slavers roam the deep waters offshore, taking captives to feed the voracious Kudzu Army and the human aqueduct bearing fresh water from Lake Okeechobee. On the last stretch of the Overseas Highway still standing, an albino seeress slowly becomes her name: White Flamingo. “You,” she says. “You will reach for the sun while staying rooted to the ground. But I fear your shadow will be much too long.” Transformed by his father’s genie box in the late days of the Red War, Leaf has lived for decades or centuries alone in a collapsing Victorian house on a desolate sandy key, misunderstanding time, feeding on sunlight and dew. When at last he meets a boy like-but so unlike!-himself, Leaf understands he has met destiny and sets out on a long, strange journey. A post-apocalyptic, psychoactive, polymorphous-perverse pastorale, Green Thumb will startle you with its utter strangeness and break your heart with its fragile beauty.

 

Green Thumb: A Novella

 

Green Thumb Author PhotoThis is not an easy novella but it is an award-winner. If you like strange and fantastical fiction, this book is for you. I’ve known Tom Cardamone for many years. He has a vast imagination and one day his noggin is going to float away. Lethe prides itself on publishing all the many fields within speculative fiction: horror, science-fiction, fantasy, weird fiction, and bizarre stuff. This book is a combination of two or more of these but it’s a great blend. .

 

We have two copies of Green Thumb to give away. You may choose print or digital editions.



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Kazza K
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“A post-apocalyptic, psychoactive, polymorphous-perverse pastorale…” and that one part sentence wins the award for blurb of the year 🙂

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Alexi

This looks like a very unique story. I love unique. Please add me to the giveaway.

Casey
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Casey

What Kazza said in her comment. Lol

Add me to the giveaway, plz.

Dianna
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Dianna

This sounds intriguing. Please put my name into the hat as well. Thanks

CK
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I love strange and fantastical fiction. Count me in for the giveaway. 🙂

Sula
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Sula

I am fascinated by dystopia stories and this one is quite different to any that I have read before.

Carolyn
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Carolyn

Holy wow! I had to reread that blurb to see if I could fully grasp it. I haven’t read anything by Tom Cardamone, but this is so unique I’m ready to start!