Galleon Books

Limited edition hardcover from Galleon Books

Orders of Semblance follows a multinational team of biologists on an academic expedition to the equator as they search for an enigmatic beetle that has become lost to science, Coleoptera furcifer. Running into myriad obstacles, including one another, the scientists soon find that the singular insect they are hunting possesses disparate meanings for each of them. Moving closer and closer to the interior of the unnamed land they’ve voyaged to, little do they know that they have begun an unwitting descent into a communal horror that is awaiting them deep in the jungles.

Cover illustration inspired by Henri Matisse’s L’Algue verte (Green Alga) 1953

Reading like a fever dream, Orders of Semblance slogs across an exotic terrain filled with vague and shifting meaning. Plumbing the depths of the human psyche, seeking that interstice where religion and science cross, there is no shortage of strange adventure to be found in the pages of this corrupted travelogue.

100 copies, hardcover edition, $34.99 Canadian (for US, UK, and Australia – if elsewhere, please contact us).