In a future where rain is a luxury enjoyed exclusively by the
ultra-rich, the world's only umbrella-maker is framed for the
high-profile murder of the quadrillionaire patriarch who controls the
earth's last natural resources. Beautiful and horrific, The Rain
Artist is pitched as Succession meets The Fifth Element
and asks the question of how art and artists can thrive under
commercialized capitalism.
The Rain Artist
started as a short story published in O: The Oprah Magazine
and was included as a notable story in the Best American Science
Fiction and Fantasy 2022 anthology by editors Rebecca Roanhorse
and John Joseph Adams. The novel is the first in a series set in the
immediate future of our mutating planet.
