A family prepares for Assessment. Two brothers haggle over the legacy of
their parents. A computer game designer aches with curious longings.
Amidst it all, sisters, heroines, rebels, lunar moths and a not
insignificant number of rabbits play out their lives under the strange
grips of technology, governments, corporations and the capricious
planets on which we all, in our different ways, just about manage to
live.
This Paradise is a rare and beautiful collection of stories about
people fleeing towards places or times or situations they hope might be
better - trying to outrun their nature, to deny the undeniable. Written
with an arresting eye for detail, a rich sense of compassion and a
darkly comic understanding of the human psyche, the stories in this
volume propose a series of haphazard questions, not least of which is:
where do we run to when there's nowhere left to run?