“Every part of S.G. Baker’s collection The Hopeful Wanderer has purpose. Sometimes obvious, other times layered and more hidden… Every vignette deserves mental, cognitive, and emotional scrutiny. The fragmentation we experience shines a bright light — bringing visible things wondrous, frightening, and difficult to explain… This is the type of book that begs you to engage beyond the plot and rewards you with more questions.”
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Bring the Wanderer Home
The Hopeful Wanderer
Wander a world driven from mundane to magical by a secret hidden at its heart.
A slow apocalypse has corroded a distant planet, with the uncanny living in uneasy commune alongside those remaining. On a forgotten quest from the stars, the Wanderer roams among them, through crumbling societies and vibrant wildernesses, navigating a murky path toward an incredible past.
While helping and receiving help-or hindrance-from strange denizens of unusual destinations, the Wanderer must finish righting a wrong that threatens to extinguish the universe itself. Should memory of the responsibility return at all.
Featuring
- 100 Hopeful Wanderer tales
- 20 new short stories
- 10-episode revelatory ending
- 100% revised and expanded
A far-future science fantasy with sub-tones of soft-apocalypse and climate change, this hopeful adventure combines exploration, eeriness, and wonder across 100 short tales.
Join readers who loved the web series and journey alongside them in discovering the Wanderer’s wondrous past and hopeful mission to save the stars.
Woven through with themes of acceptance, kindness, beauty in difference, and the wonder and strangeness of nature, this story will charm and delight readers of Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara and fans of The CryptoNaturalist and Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson.
“I love how varied the experiences were. The heartwarming stories mixed right in with the unsettling and strange is a perfect picture of life. The underlying story for why this is all happening was absolute perfection…Definitely one of the more unique story collections I have read. I really enjoyed it!”
—Amanda K. Collier, ARC Reader, The God of the Backrooms
“This is a whimsical yet potent selection of interwoven short stories about a Wanderer searching for something they once held dear. This book is filled with beauty, sadness, monsters, brilliant deadly things, and hope. You cannot forget the hope. This is a book for those that want to touch the stars.”
—Laci McGee, ARC Reader, McGee Travel Tales
“Every part of S.G. Baker’s collection The Hopeful Wanderer has purpose. Sometimes obvious, other times layered and more hidden…Every vignette deserves mental, cognitive, and emotional scrutiny. The fragmentation we experience shines a bright light — bringing visible things wondrous, frightening, and difficult to explain…This is the type of book that begs you to engage beyond the plot and rewards you with more questions.”
—Jason Brown, ARC Reader, Toastx2
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