Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these
edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the
known and the alien.
The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of
conviction merge in stories that are by turns dark, satiric, bold, and
introspective. A seemingly humanized monster from John Carpenter's The
Thing reveals the true villains in an Antarctic showdown. An artificial
intelligence shields a biologically-enhanced prodigy from her
overwhelmed parents. A deep-sea diver discovers that her true nature
lies not within the confines of her mission but in the depths of her
psyche. A court psychologist analyzes a psychotic graduate student who
has learned to reprogram reality itself. A father tries to hold his
broken family together in the wake of an ongoing assault by sentient
rainstorms.
Gorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected
fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget.