Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow

Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow

Language: English

Pages: 416

ISBN: 1553654927

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

propagation of the Jesi, above). After this event, the four Jesi became celebrity figures in their own countries and worldwide, performing miracles in public. The first instance of healing the sick (the Munich Miracle) occurred at a long-term care facility in Munich, Germany. No media representatives were present at the event, but later accounts from witnesses confirm that on June 3 of 2009, no less than seven Jesi converged at the facility at 3:00 AM, arriving on foot (it was later speculated

and left the carcass near where Daewoo Motors set up the Aurochs factory nearly four hundred years later in complex tribute. The Aurochs SUV had the most epic hood ornament. Incredible. Award-winning. Dash computer operates on an unfathomably small half gig of memory. Adjustable everything. Seats nine comfortably. Slavic luxury vehicle. The Euro didn’t even exist yet to pay for this behemoth with. It was another century before the Euro and dollar merged to become our ears. The Aurochs cost over

almost twice as fat as originally intended, the majority of its pages seen here in print for the first time. Surprises? Only one. That so many of these stories are about the possibility of love. Sure, there are survivors, outliers,9 and warriors, too. But a lot of the survivors are lovers as well. And some of the lovers, warriors. All of the warriors, outliers. And the outliers do their damnedest to survive. Regrets? Only two. There are no talking animals in these pages (at least of the

getting a surprise jizz shot in the face from a Kushner wannabe (I think it’s sad that Aaron Kushner’s Celebrity Poppers is the number-one show on VOX-TV). No, just a few of the better Silverman skits, which we both totally enjoyed and laughed at. It’s amazing, isn’t it, that she’s still doing her thing, even in Stage-IV Isolation, even working the amputations into the act? Brave. And so cool, don’t you think, that we have a similar sensibility when it comes to what’s funny? By the way, Louise, I

it. But he’d seen a look in Mary’s eyes, then, that he didn’t like, not at all, and after that he wondered if anyone had ever drowned there before, in Tatlow Park, just around dawn. We bonded, in large part, around cheesy science fiction movies. I explained my theory that the best cinematic SF is almost always to be found in very bad films, but only in tiny, brilliant, fractal bursts. We both loved Blade Runner, Alien, the first couple of Terminators. Hated Star Trek, hated Star Wars. Loved Mad

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