Copyright © 2015 by Fred Strydom

First published in 2015 by Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd.

First Talos Press edition 2016

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Strydom, Fred, author.

Title: The raft : a novel / Fred Strydom.

Description: First Talos Press edition. | New York : Talos Press, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015050141 | ISBN 9781940456607 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Regression (Civilization)--Fiction. | Memory--Fiction. | Science fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure. | FICTION / Science Fiction / General.

Classification: LCC PR9369.4.S85 R34 2016 | DDC 823/.92--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015050141

Cover illustration by Sylvain Sarrailh

Cover design by Rain Saukas

Printed in the United States of America