AUTHOR - China Marshall

China Marshall writes speculative fiction for readers who finished Station Eleven and immediately wanted something either funnier or more mythic — sometimes both in the same week.

Her books share a premise: an old, self-generating system — an archive, a field, a network — has been quietly running underneath ordinary life for longer than anyone currently involved realizes. The system isn't neutral. It's broken, fragmented, searching for something, and it has found its way to an unglamorous, competent woman who has no idea that's what's happening to her. She wasn't chosen. She was positioned — by competence, by accident, by being the kind of person who shows up and does the unglamorous work nobody else wants.

The Last to Leave is her debut series. In The Consensus Field, the same structural premise plays out in a mythic, elevated register, with higher stakes and a straighter face. 

China Marshall lives, as far as anyone can tell, inside the very systems she writes about.