Warriors: The divinity gene / Matthew J. Trafford. The Aurochs / Lee Henderson -- Survivor / Douglas Coupland -- The personasts: my journeys through soft evenings and famous secrets / Stephen Marche -- We ate the children last / Yann Martel -- Sunshine City / Timothy Taylor. Lovers: The December astronauts (or moon-base horse code) / Mark Anthony Jarman -- Love in the pneumatic tube era / Jessica Grant -- I found your VOX / Elyse Friedman -- Remote control / Annabel Lyon -- Notes from the womb / Anosh Irani. Outliers: Dougal discarnate / William Gibson -- Large garbage / Buffy Cram -- This morning all night / Paul Carlucci -- There is no time in Waterloo / Sheila Heti -- The dreamlife of toasters / Heather O'Neill -- Crush / Oliver Kellhammer. Warriors: Fire from heaven: a dystopian suite / Laura Trunkey -- Twilight of the gods / David Whitton -- 1999 / Pasha Malla -- Atheists were almost right about everything / Neil Smith -- Gladiator / Jay Brown -- The divinity gene / Matthew J. Trafford.
Summary:
These 23 stories take us on a twisted fun ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a one-legged International Actuarial Forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus engage in their own games of the survival of the fittest.
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