Beneath the sea, over millennia, sentient beings await our final mistakes: soon they will make their move.

Manfred, an amateur seaweed collector, is convinced that algae are taking over the human race. Haunted by his past, Manfred falls in love with Nora, who has her own ideas about seaweeds and her own troubled history.

From a Cornish fishing village to the Spanish coast, up to the blinding glacial landscape of the Arctic, human society falls under the microscope in Rob Magnuson Smith's genre-bending existential drama Seaweed Rising.

About the Author

Rob Magnuson Smith is a novelist, short story writer, and academic based in Cornwall. His debut novel The Gravedigger won the Pirate's Alley William Faulkner Award. His second, Scorper, was published by Granta. Recent short fiction has appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, the Guardian, The Greensboro Review, Fiction International, and the Australian Book Review. He has been awarded the Elizabeth Jolley Prize and longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.

Reviews

'Wonderfully strange. At once a moving love story and an ecological reverie of Ballardian intensity.'

'Funny and grim and like nothing you have read before. Effortlessly original.'

'Truly weird and wonderful, sad and eerie.'

Book Information
ISBN 9781914518287
Author Rob Magnuson Smith
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Sandstone Press Ltd
Publisher Sandstone Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 400g
Dimensions(mm) 222mm * 144mm * 24mm