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Darwin's bastards [electronic resource] : astounding tales from tomorrow / selected & edited by Zsuzsi Gartner.

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781553656166 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1553656164 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (361 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, c2010.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Survivors: This is not the end my friend / Adam Lewis Schroeder -- 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.

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