Author: | William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, Yann Martel, Timothy Taylor | ISBN: | 9781553656166 |
Publisher: | Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd. | Publication: | May 1, 2010 |
Imprint: | Douglas & McIntyre | Language: | English |
Author: | William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, Yann Martel, Timothy Taylor |
ISBN: | 9781553656166 |
Publisher: | Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd. |
Publication: | May 1, 2010 |
Imprint: | Douglas & McIntyre |
Language: | English |
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. From a new short story by William Gibson in which a teen disassociated from his body haunts his neighborhood through the decades, to Douglas Coupland’s balls-out satire of a slightly futuristic Survivor, to 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.
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. From a new short story by William Gibson in which a teen disassociated from his body haunts his neighborhood through the decades, to Douglas Coupland’s balls-out satire of a slightly futuristic Survivor, to 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.