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About The Not Yet
by Moira Crone
I saw them in a dream: a young, handsome man sitting opposite a blonde woman whose features were sculpted, perfect. They were in a bar I recognized, on Magazine Street in New Orleans. A voice told me a secret: “She’s his great-grandmother, or as old as that.” I woke, startled---it had been so real.What future did this man live in? And what was that old beauty about to demand of him, or explain? My novel, The Not Yet, is set in 2121. The U.S. has shrunken, become the United Authority. States along the Gulf Coast and the Pacific Rim have been cut away—-too many disasters, too hard to govern. The elite Heirs, who run the Authority for themselves, live hundreds of years on nearly foolproof life-extension programs. Their upkeep absorbs all the economy’s resources. The poor eek out a narrow, illegal existence, working as slaves or performers, or hang on in restricted tribes called Enclaves. Outside the U.A. border, the New Orleans Islands are a no-man’s land of outlaws, antique sects, desperate characters, and bizarre entertainments. Since he was five, Malcolm de Lazarus, a foundling, has performed for the ancient Heirs who come down for thrills. He is lucky enough to have been a child star: his earnings make him a “Not-Yet,” one of the rare ones, planning on buying in, joining the Heirs. But, when he turns twenty-one, and is living and working among the Heirs, he learns that his savings have inexplicably disappeared. He must journey back to the Islands for answers. Along the way, he discovers the darkest facets of Heirs’ privilege. He also receives a dangerous offer---for another kind of life. Novelist Stewart O’Nan has written: “…Moira Crone has fashioned a post-apocalyptic picaresque to rival Riddley Walker and Fiskadoro. In The Not Yet, her foundling Malcolm navigates a bizarre, fallen New Orleans as strange and wonderful as the real one.” Lambda Award winning author, Jim Grimsley wrote, “…To classify this novel in any way would detract from its ability to resonate on many levels, as myth, as high literature, as science fiction, as fantasy, with the hints of a graphic novel in the rich imagery and finely honed writing…I have not read a more compelling novel in a very long time.” Learn more at moiracrone.com and UNO Press