Cynthia Kraack

• Jan-2023
• / General Fiction

An anthology of previously unpublished short stories, selected and edited by Steve McEllistrem and Cynthia Kraack, by authors of Calumet Editions, which includes a mixed genre short story by Ian Graham Leask....

• Dec-2014
• / General Fiction

Rachel Kemper Kelsey was fourth on her parents’ emergency contact list so an evening phone call from their physician signals a major calamity. Her mother Katherine, who rigidly controls family communications, has avoided contact with her older daug...

• Jul-2014
• / Science Fiction

The Ashwood trilogy ends three decades after failure of the global economy. The big question is answered. If world leaders had the opportunity to build from scratch, what would happen? At the half point of the twenty-first century, corporate spinners...

• Jun-2012
• / Science Fiction

“Big Brother goes stark raving mad in Harvesting Ashwood,     Cynthia Kraack's engrossing drama about family love versus an unfeeling bureaucracy. The author paints a dystopian future that's scary as hell. It makes Ayn Rand's Anthem and Jack ­...

• May-2012
• / General Fiction

"Big Brother goes stark raving mad in Harvesting Ashwood,     Cynthia Kraack's engrossing drama about family love versus an unfeeling bureaucracy. The author paints a dystopian future that's scary as hell. It makes Ayn Rand's Anth...

• Sep-2010
• / General Fiction

"Cynthia Kraack's immediately transfixing Ashwood deftly swings us into a not-too-distant future of limited natural resources and unlimited challenges, and into the life of a young government worker beginning an assignment as matron of an a...

• Sep-2009
• / General Fiction

"Readers who have loved 1984, Brave New World, Soylent Green, Fahrenheit 451, or the The Handmaid's Tale will devour this book, too. Rigorously plotted and carefully written, the author brings Minnesota into a frightening fictional future with no hol...