The Coward Ulf Blank - PRE-ORDER
by Bruno George
The Coward Ulf Blank is the the 20th book in the Fellow Travelers Series. Pre-order your copy now! It will ship the week of its October 22, 2026 publication date.
The Coward Ulf Blank will be available as a letterpress softcover, an ebook, and as a special Artist's Edition (see each of these three options in the dropdown below)
“A surreally depressive tour de force that wallows as much as it sings […] I savored every sentence.”
—Callum Angus, author of The Natural History of Transition, Stories
What if the class war opened a front in the afterlife?
In a near-future Pacific Northwest city, an earthquake opens a tunnel to the land of the dead. The rich seize the territory below and extract rents from it. Aboveground, more and more people are driven into destitution. They survive on waxworm paste, trade fake currencies for fake lottery tickets, and entertain the rich with the spectacle of their poverty. Then someone or something begins killing homeless people.
Ulf Blank—old, gay, trans, and homeless—crosses these borderlands in search of his vanished top, the leftist Lojz Bristol. Hounded by a border patrol cop who wants to turn him into a snitch and drawn toward an ex-urban camp of communists, Ulf begins to see how his and Lojz’s private theater of cruelty may be bound up with larger systems of domination.
The Coward Ulf Blank makes the wager that capitalism deserves its own novels of disillusion.
Bruno George is a Seattle writer whose work has previously appeared in Conjunctions, Chicago Review, Birkensnake, and elsewhere. This is his first novel.
