382 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 2015
A provocative new collection of short stories by the New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author of Kraken explores a range of styles and forms to explore an alternate universe where nature provocatively renders the human race an endangered species.
like most of miéville's work, it's not for the faint of heart—several of the stories, like "Säcken", are positively horrific. (most of them are merely bizarre and mindbending.)
some of my favorites: "Polynia"; "The Condition of New Death"; "The Dowager of Bees"; "The Buzzard's Egg"; "A Second Slice Manifesto".
Short story collection, best described as "weird fiction". Some faves of mine with super brief content descriptions to help the serendipity: "Saecken" is the best horror I've ever read. Also like "Three Moments of an Explosion" (drugs and time), "The Condition of New Death" (sudden rupture in how the world is), "The Dowager of Bees" (weird structures in the back of the world), "The Crawl" and "Escapee" (both very short film trailer storyboards), "The Bastard Prompt" (so weird, but I love the description of the relationship of the protagonists), "Four Final Orpheuses" (only a page long and so good), "Dreaded Outcome" (therapy)
