Plantation Pan
by Eddie Generous
Genre: Science Fiction
A cosmic horror and science fiction sequel to Arthur Machen’s masterpiece, The Great God Pan.
Centuries after Earth has become uninhabitable, the planet has rejuvenated. The Union, the organization
governing the diaspora, sends a team to the mother planet with hopes of resuming life on the homeland.
For months, activity on Plantation Earth has been irregular and The Union has been receiving strange
transmissions, until finally, they’ve lost contact altogether.
The Union recruits Lay Watt to be a member of the second team to go the planet’s surface. Lay finds that
the close-knit crew considers her an outsider. This is a dangerous state of affairs as the team wades
through humanity’s ruins to seek out the ancient source of the current disaster. As they explore, a figure
on the periphery of their dreams stalks the edges of their reality and threatens to destroy all they know to
be true.
Eddie Generous is an author of Savage Beasts of the Arctic Circle, RAWR, Trouble at Camp Still Waters,
Great Big Teeth, and Radio Run (all from Severed Press), Plantation Pan (from Omnium Gatherum), and
several collections. He is the founder/editor/publisher/artist behind Unnerving and Unnerving Magazine,
and the host of the Unnerving Podcast. He lives on the Pacific Coast of Canada with his wife and their
cat overlords.
GUEST POST
First taste of adult suspense literature
As a kid, I was a pretty good reader. I
fell away from it in my double digits and stayed away until late in
high school.
I’d had a teacher unlike any other
I’d had before. Totally open to me and she was not at all in for
the usual bullshit. Here was a middle-aged horse farmer who sold
overpriced free-range eggs to wealthy cityfolk. Something I got,
being a farmkid and knowing city people who bought farms to settle
down.
A couple weeks into the semester, she
filled me in on the breakroom gossip. Turned out several teachers
said they felt sorry for her, having me in two of her classes, like,
good luck with that troublemaker—my whole family had a rep—or
whatever colorful moniker they’d given me.
I’d always figured as much, but
having it confirmed kind of fueled the stance I’ve lived with my
entire adult life. Bucking the status quo is pretty much what keeps
me going and even back in the twelfth grade, I understood it would
take smart work—I had no idea how much—and I swiped books from my
buddy’s garage. His parents were both doctors and if there was ever
an opposite of my disposition, it’s a pair of doctors.
Mostly the books would fit into a
philosophy or maybe sociology course somewhere fancy, but I read them
to add to a checklist, like, you got me all wrong, I’m not going to
jail or rehab or the psyche ward, look at all these books I’ve
read. Then I had my first adult holy shitballs Batman moment while
reading, and after that, the books became more.
Picture it, book after book of fairly
stuffy subject matter, page after page of dense prose designed to
present high ideas, and me, eighteen, yawning away, but doing the
work. It was almost certainly like any other night: lonely me in my
$75/week boarding room with my TV, my makeshift bed, and the beat-up
paperbacks. Maybe 100 pages in, more dense paragraphs and a historic
setting, kind of boring—but a little cool because I can relate to
the poverty of the characters in this one—and then blamo:
He had not a minute more to lose. He
pulled the axe quite out and swung it with both arms, scarcely
conscious of himself, almost mechanically, brought the blunt side
down on her head… Then he dealt her another and another blow with
the blunt side on the same spot. The blood gushed as if from an
overturned glass…
I burned through the rest of Fyodor
Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Then one after another, I
tackled the books of his I could get my paws on—slowly but
steadily, it took years. Then came Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Then came
H.G. Wells, Dean Koontz, Stephen King…
Probably I’d be an adult reader
without that broke man attacking the old moneylender, but maybe not,
maybe I’d never have stumbled onto the road that led to suspenseful
books.
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