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Noah Medlock
Noah Medlock is an author known for "A Botanical Daughter." Their writing often explores themes within the science fiction genre. Medlock's stories frequently feature unique biological concepts.
A Botanical Daughter
Synopsis
In Victorian England, two reclusive men—Gregor, a gifted botanist, and Simon, a melancholy taxidermist—share a life and a hothouse garden, hidden away from a world that would never accept them. When Gregor becomes obsessed with a parasitic fungus capable of animating dead tissue, the couple undertakes a monstrous act of creation: they build a daughter, Chloe, from a corpse, plant matter, and the questing tendrils of the fungus—and, impossibly, she wakes.
As Chloe grows into something with a will and hungers of her own, the men's fragile domestic idyll begins to rot from within. Noah Medlock's A Botanical Daughter is a lush, macabre queer gothic—Frankenstein by way of the greenhouse—about parenthood, control, love, and the terrible price of playing god with life and death. Tender and grotesque in equal measure, it blooms toward horror.
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Characters
SimonProtagonist
One of two Victorian gentlemen living in a botanical garden, Simon is an artist focused on taxidermy in his basement workshop.
King GregorProtagonist
The other Victorian gentleman, Gregor is a botanist whose interest in exotic plants leads him to attempt creating intelligent life from plant matter.
ChloeSupporting
The plant-beast created by Gregor's experiment, named after her creation, who quickly outstrips expectations and entangles the household.