Condo Mania: A Triss Mackey Mystery
by Tim Chawaga
For readers of John D. MacDonald and Kim Stanley Robinson, Condo Mania is the second in the Triss Mackey sci-fi mystery series, set in a near-future, flooded Florida.
In the Florida Yoreshore, a mob of money-grabbing developers rush in to build quick and shoddy housing on newly deregulated land. One project, Condo Maxxxima, rapidly outpaces the rest, building one floor a day, incinerating the ecosystem that Triss Mackey and her friends have spent their lives trying to protect. In a bind, Triss is sucked into the pyramid scheme that is Condo Maxxxima, and finds herself trapped between competing corporate agendas. When a woman goes missing and Triss disrupts the plans of a particularly dangerous founder, Triss’s independence is no longer the only thing at risk. With her community, environment, and autonomy on the line, she must find a way to stop Condo Maxxxima from taking over the yoreshore before it’s too late.
Condo Mania is a wildly fun cross between a zany Florida mystery filled with colorful characters and climate-fic sci-fi. Chawaga's future Florida is richly imagined, and his heroine is a flawed, compelling woman of action who readers will want to dive into an adventure with.
About the Author
Tim Chawaga writes plays and speculative fiction. His short fiction has been featured in "Interzone" and "Escape Pod" and his work has been performed in New York and Philadelphia at many venues that have either closed or been converted into gyms. He has a BFA in Drama from the Tisch School of the Arts, is a 2019 graduate of Clarion West and the recipient of George R.R. Martin’s Worldbuilder Scholarship, and currently works in tech. He lives in a co-op in Brooklyn with his partner and dog.
His debut novel, "Salvagia", is forthcoming from Diversion Books.