The Dog Stars

> My name is Hig. > > I was born in the Year of the Rat. > > I have no serial number but my pilot’s license number is 135-271. ▽ Canis Major, the constellation shown in the book’s cover. It can be seen in Colorado’s skies during the Winter months. Till Credner, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Dog Stars is a novel that occurs after an apocalyptic pandemic. The main character, Hig, survives in isolation with just two companions, Bangley, the gun-nut, and Jasper, the faithful dog. It is, still, not so much a post-apocalypse book as an interpersonal relationships and connection story, of course, set in an extreme context.