Condo Mania

A Triss Mackey Mystery

Published by Diversion Books
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About the Book

For readers of John D. MacDonald and Kim Stanley Robinson, Condo Mania is the second in theTriss Mackey sci-fi mystery series, set in a near-future, flooded Florida.

In the Florida Yoreshore, a mob of money-grabbing developers rush in to build quick and shoddy housing on newly deregulated land. One project, Condo Maxxxima, rapidly outpaces the rest, building one floor a day, incinerating the ecosystem that Triss Mackey and her friends have spent their lives trying to protect. In a bind, Triss is sucked into the pyramid scheme that is Condo Maxxxima, and finds herself trapped between competing corporate agendas. When a woman goes missing and Triss disrupts the plans of a particularly dangerous founder, Triss’s independence is no longer the only thing at risk. With her community, environment, and autonomy on the line, she must find a way to stop Condo Maxxxima from taking over the yoreshore before it’s too late.

Condo Mania is a wildly fun cross between a zany Florida mystery filled with colorful characters and climate-fic sci-fi. Chawaga's future Florida is richly imagined, and his heroine is a flawed, compelling woman of action who readers will want to dive into an adventure with.

About the Author

Tim Chawaga is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts and Clarion West, and he is a recipient of George R. R. Martin’s Worldbuilder Scholarship. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner and dog.

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Product Details

  • Publisher: Diversion Books (June 29, 2027)
  • Length: 304 pages
  • ISBN13: 9798895153239

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Praise for Salvagia

"Megayachts and breezy rivalries animate Chawaga’s wild sci-fi mystery debut set in hurricane-plagued near-future Florida...inventive...zany worldbuilding.... This sunshine state extravaganza starts strong.”
—Publishers Weekly

"Salvagia delivers nostalgic mystery, adventure, and climate punk all in one package. This is a miss-your-subway-stop, keep-listening-in-your-driveway, hide-it-in-a-textbook, read-it-during-a-Zoom-call level of superb."
—Mur Lafferty, author of the Midsolar Murders series

"A sharp and inventive debut, Salvagia is a full-throttle trip that doesn’t let up until the last page. With deft worldbuilding and compellingly noirish characters, Chawaga’s future Florida crackles with intrigue and danger at every turn."
—Victor Manibo, author of The Sleepless and Escape Velocity

"Salvagia makes the climate apocalypse look cool. From the depths of sunken Miami to the heights of atmo-breaker races, Chawaga zips through post-climate change Florida, taking his characters through a thrilling murder mystery that unravels into a set of corporate and personal entanglements that serve as a neat mirror of our own world’s issues, magnified and extrapolated into the future."
—Isabel J. Kim, Hugo and Nebula Award finalist and author of Sublimation

"This near future novel weaves together elements of murder mysteries, thrillers, and found families into a propellant-fueled page turner of a plot. Along the way, Chawaga’s debut presents a critique of many present-day issues while avoiding a descent into total dystopianism, leaving the reader with a satisfyingly bittersweet finish."
—S.B. Divya, Hugo and Nebula Award finalist and author of Meru

"Salvagia is a wonderful debut from one of the best new writers we have. If you love smart, exciting science fiction, this one's for you!"
—Jonathan Strahan, World Fantasy Award winning editor of New Adventures in Space Opera

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