Blurb
The distance between violent conflagration and utter desolation is much shorter than you think.
A facility generates power by obliterating aesthetic beauty from parallel universes; a “pink brick” defies the analytical capacity of a team researching an alien culture; a world struggles to cope with the ecological impact of its moon's descending orbit; a young man with relationship problems is tormented by his own reflection; a deadly poisonous organism masquerades as an art show piece.
Transmutations combines the best stories of two previous collections, Lore & Logos and Transmutations of Fire and Void. The most recent edition features a new cover by Zhivko Zhelev and a new paperback interior design.
Read if you are interested in…
- short stories (lots of them)
- artificial sentience
- our conception of our place within a grand history of societies
- impact of rampant commercialism on aesthetics
- cats (science-fictionally)
Inspiration
It’s not easy to pin down any one inspiration here. I wrote most of these stories at two writing groups that I attended between 2015 and 2017. All my usual suspects are here, though: how technology is changing us, what technology itself might become, human societal development over time, our changing aesthetic sensibilities. And also, cats.
Stories
| Title | Classification |
|---|---|
| Adaptive | short story |
| A Programmer’s Tale | short story |
| Bastards | short story |
| Binary | short story |
| Conifer | short story |
| Fair Trade | short story |
| Felis Catus | short story |
| Ghost Daemons | short story |
| Halls of Power | short story |
| Lunar Eclipse | short story |
| Meerkat and Lynx | short story |
| Our Algorithm Who Art Perfection | novella |
| Revelation | short story |
| Right and Proper | short story |
| Rune-Driven Spellcraft | short story |
| Shadowplay | short story |
| Temple of the Setting Sun | short story |
| The Abcontinuum | short story |
| The Blazrath | short story |
| The Keyhole | short story |
| The Worlds of Things | short story |
| We Were Here First | short story |
| Xenosociology | short story |
Editions
| ISBN | Release Date | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 978-1-62802-024-3 | November 6, 2020 | in print |
| 978-1-62802-018-2 | January 21, 2019 | out of print |