Adam Marek crafts short stories that masterfully blend the surreal and absurd with the fabric of everyday life. His work, often likened to early McEwan meeting David Cronenberg, offers a refreshing take on the form, exploring the boundaries of reality with unnerving talent. Marek's bold approach and distinctive perspective have established him as a significant voice, suggesting that his unique style might soon become its own literary adjective. He consistently hits the mark, leaving readers with stories that are both thought-provoking and delightfully unsettling.
In this unique anthology, authors have collaborated with leading scientists, to bounce literary, human narratives against purely theoretical ones, alloying together real stories with abstract ones, to produce truly extraordinary results.
Revealing a bestiary of hybrids from the techno-crazed future and the mythological past, this surreal short story collection takes imaginative leaps through a science fiction influenced landscape. Reflecting a cinematic feel, young couples reach defining stages in their relationships as zombies fall in love, a stalker tracks a young woman through time only to discover he’s related to her, and a young man battles Godzilla in order to prove a point to his girlfriend. Blurring the boundaries between reality and hallucination—from robotic insects and in-growing cutlery to a woman impregnated with 37 embryos—these fantastical tales offer a world where the body is fluid, the spirit is mechanized, and the beasts know more about humanity than the humans do.