He also sets about freeing other domestic pets trapped inside with their rotting owners. leaves the comfort of domestication for the wild, where he hopes to find a cure for Big Jim along with the rest of humanity. Among the animals, humans come to be known as Hollows: 'Milky-eyed machines intent on destruction, empty vessels that have lost their inner intelligence.' For S.T.'s part, he refers to humanity as 'MoFos,' because that is what Big Jim used to call most of his fellow humans. realizes that humanity has fallen victim to some sort of zombifying agent, likely of its own making. After conferring with his wild crow rivals through the window, S.T.

Nor does he respond when Dennis approaches him with slobbering love. picks up a beer with his beak and tries to pour it into Big Jim's mouth, but the owner doesn't respond. Then comes the day when Big Jim's eyeballs fall out of his sockets. loves his oafish owner who, after all, provides the crow with all the Cheetos he can eat. While Big Jim is by any measure a pretty massive jerk, S.T. also lives with Big Jim's mute, dimwitted, and incredibly sweet bloodhound, Dennis. Hollow Kingdom's protagonist is a domesticated pet crow named S.T., which stands for 'Shit Turd.' S.T.'s affinity for foul language and junk food-especially Cheetos-is inherited from his owner Big Jim, a loutish drunk living in Seattle who spends his days reading pornographic magazines and hooking up with women on Tinder. PEN/Faulkner award-winning author Karen Joy Fowler accurately described the book as ' The Secret Lives of Pets meets The Walking Dead.' At the end of 2019, Hollow Kingdom was included on a number of Best of the Year lists including ones published by NPR, Book Riot, and Good Housekeeping. It features anthropomorphized versions of animals as its protagonists and antagonists. Hollow Kingdom (2019), a science fiction fantasy novel by American author Kira Jane Buxton, imagines a post-apocalyptic world in which humans have so polluted the world and their bodies and that they become zombies, leaving pets and wild animals to fend for themselves.

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