Darwin's Bastards Astounding Tales from Tomorrow |
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| Editor:
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| ISBN: | 978-1-77100-165-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2010 |
| Publisher: | Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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"Canadians who read this book will be proud to see that their imaginative landscape is as wildly bizarre - and honest to the truth - as ever." --
Globe & Mail Social satire, fabulist tales and darkly humorous dystopian visions by some of Canada's most adventurous and distinguished writers. The 23 stories in
Darwin's Bastards take us on a twisted, wild ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters as...
More Description"Canadians who read this book will be proud to see that their imaginative landscape is as wildly bizarre - and honest to the truth - as ever." -- Globe & Mail
Social satire, fabulist tales and darkly humorous dystopian visions by some of Canada's most adventurous and distinguished writers.
The 23 stories in Darwin's Bastards take us on a twisted, wild ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a dead boy, 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. The collection includes the first new short story by William Gibson to be published since 1997, as well as original, previously unpublished fiction by Lee Henderson, Timothy Taylor, Heather O'Neill, Mark Anthony Jarman, and others.
From recent Trillium Award-winner Pasha Malla's hilarious take on the apocalypse, where Prince is the only man left alive, to newcomer Matthew J. Trafford's brilliant triptych about the fallout from the cloning of Jesus Christ, to iconoclast Sheila Heti's meditative romp about beleaguered physicists and Oracle of Delphi-like BlackBerrys, Darwin's Bastards is a fast-moving, thought-provoking reading extravaganza.