If there’s a problem in the world — literally any problem — you can bet there’s a billionaire behind it somewhere, exacerbating untold suffering for their own personal gain. War, famine, pestilence, and death aren’t so much apocalyptic horsemen as line items and write-offs, holes collected on a punch card where the fifth atrocity is free.
We, the non-rich, are wildly outclassed, millions of us cobbling together less money for a righteous cause than what some gold-leafed CEO wipes their ass with. Lasting change can feel like a Sisyphean task, and uncoupling society from capitalist classism, from corporate greed, seems damn near impossible this far into the future.
Honestly, some days it feels like our only recourse is to, quite literally, Eat the Rich.
Eat the Rich, from Atomic Carnival Books and editor Eirik Gumeny, is a new speculative fiction anthology of billionaires (and other rich assholes) being eaten. That’s it, full stop. A collection of carnivores, cannibals, kaiju, cryptids, and creophagous compost committed to consumerist chaos and capitalist comeuppance.
We may not be able to actually fix the world with this book, but goddamn if we’re not going to feel a little better after.
Featuring new fiction from T.L. Bodine, Alex Ebenstein, R.T. Ester, Lor Gislason, Cynthia Gómez, Wayne Santos … and maybe you? Submissions will be open from April 1 – April 30, with an additional two week window for authors from historically marginalized groups.
Find out more about our featured authors here.
Edited by Eirik Gumeny. First readers are Ria Hill, Jim Horlock, M. Lopes da Silva, Avra Margariti, Melissa Ren, and Violet Schwegler. Find out more about who they are and what they’ll be looking for here.
Eat the Rich, Various Authors, Edited by Eirik Gumeny
Anticipated Publication Date: Aug. 13, 2024
ISBN TBD
Horror / Dark Fantasy
TBD Pages / Anthology