/lit/ - Literature

Angela Carter is rarely considered but this novella has appeal for SF and fantasy readers.

>Generations after a nuclear apocalypse
>Survivors who retain pre-war knowledge and technology live in small fortified arable settlements; among them, a teenage girl protag
>They frequently skirmish with Mad Max/Mongol-like nomadic marauders who raid for food and medicine; lead by a shamanic outcasted intellectual, they live temporarily in a crumbling stately home full of gothic trappings.
>Teenage girl runs away from home and is forcefully married into the tribe
>For GRI fans there is plenty of rape, sex, violence, and homosexuality, rendered in gorgeous gothic prose