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INVASIVE SPECIES
Joseph Wallaces Invasive Species cost me a perfectly good nights sleep. This thief of a story, like its majizi, overwhelms and parasitizes quickly in its complete zombification of the hosts Self. This swift summoning hurtles the reader into the long dreaming days, the last terrifying madness confronted at your own mortal peril, and the inevitability of death. What more could an infected host ask of a story? I hope Wallace carries a screenplay of Invasive Species in his hip pocket; hes going to need it.
Bill Ransom, author of Jaguar and coauthor (with Frank Herbert) of The Jesus Incident
Wallaces unsettling, mind-bending apocalyptic novel chillingly dives into what happens when the balance of the world is disrupted and an invasive species grabs the reins. Terrifying and, yes, poetic, this is a novel that gets under your skin with an it could happen here kind of chilling grace.
Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You and Is This Tomorrow
DIAMOND RUBY
A very special book. The comparisons to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn are not made lightly: Joseph Wallace deserves that accolade and many more. Ruby is a wonderful, memorable character and Wallaces prose is a perfect match for her.
Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of Life Sentences and What the Dead Know
The exciting tale of a forgotten piece of baseballs heritage, a girl who could throw with the best of them. A real page-turner, based closely on a true story.
Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row
Diamond Ruby is a gem! Moving, fascinating, and ultimately exhilarating. I loved it!
S. J. Rozan, Edgar-winning author of The Shanghai Moon
Lively and entertaining... includes all sorts of colorful characters and fascinating social history... the story of an unassuming, courageous young woman who uses the national pastime to become a pioneering heroine in a mans world.
The Washington Post
INVASIVE SPECIES
JOSEPH WALLACE
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INVASIVE SPECIES
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Copyright 2013 by Joseph Wallace.
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eBook ISBN: 978-1-101-63596-4
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Berkley premium edition / December 2013
Cover photos by Shutterstock/Getty Images.
Cover design by George Long.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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In memory of Dad, who shared his love of nature with me, and Mom, who put up with the consequences.
And to my brothers, Jonathan and Richard, my comrades in turning over countless mossy stones and rotten logs to see what wriggled and slithered beneath.
When do you start writing a novel?
For me, thats a complicated question. My novels usually begin with a combination treasure hunt/rummage sale: I am always accumulating offbeat facts, long-lost stories, and memorable details, usually with absolutely no idea whenor ifIll be able to use them in a book. Then one day, out of the blue, a story comes together in my mind, and Im able to say, Now, thats why I kept those knickknacks around!
I remember the most important inspiration for Invasive Species. It was a riveting essay whose title and author escape me (maybe one of you out there can help), detailing the authors move from the familiar northeast to a Texas farm filled with snakes and lizards and other wildlife unlike any hed ever seen before.
The vignette I remember most vividly involved a wasp: a two-inch-long tarantula hawk, named for the spiders it would paralyze to feed its young.
The author was lying on a deck chair, watching the enormous wasp drag its paralyzed prey toward its lair. Three times, the author poked at the wasp with a stick, wanting to see if the tarantula, left alone, would revive.
The first two times, the wasp rose in the air and circled around before returning to its prey. The third time, however, it made a beeline straight to a spot three inches in front of the authors face. Lying back in his chair, he was helpless. If the hawk had wanted to unleash its excruciating sting or bite, he couldnt have stopped it.
Instead the wasp just hovered there, staring into his eyes. The message was clear: Im giving you another chance. You do that one more time, though, and youre dead meat.
Then it flew back to resume its task. And the author, his heart pounding, left it alone.
Interspecies communication between two apex predators at its clearest: a smart, agile, venomous predator telling a human what was what, and the helpless human understandingand heedingthe warning.
That was where Invasive Species began.
You cant develop a long-remembered vignette into a novel without a ton of help. As always, my deepest gratitude goes to my wife, Sharon AvRutick, for many years now my first and most trusted reader. You would not believe how messy my books are before she sees them for the first time.
My children, Shana and Jacob, put up with my tendency to describe over dinner various fascinating, oft-disgusting things about bugs. Then again, theyre used to me by now.
Im grateful to my fellow members of the Marmaduke Writing Factory for gathering, renting the basement floor of a local historic house, and giving me access to the windowless conference room (The Cave) where this novel was written. Its the best writers retreat Ive ever attended.
When you spend most of your time alone in a cave, though, you come to crave human company. Thank goodness for the existence of the Black Cow Coffee Company in Pleasantville and its manager and baristas, including Linton, Emily, Michelle, Danielle, Jianna, Mike, Natalie, Emma, Austin, and Steven. Im grateful to all of them for putting up with me after my solitary stints writing about the end of the world.
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