Themes & figments of absurdity, dislocation, anachronism, flux, shape-shifting, monsters, monstrosities & the monstrous, liquidity, instability, the formless, multiplicity, agony & anguish, and transient, ludic worlds form the warp & weft upon which these novellas are written …
Sleep|Nothing|Asylum
To dream, perchance to sleep. We are such stuff as sleep is made on, and our little life is rounded with dreams. In a regime in which sleep has been banned, a dissident, somnambulist machine dreams on-the-run, shape-shifting, trying to avoid the insomniac tyranny.
This novella belongs to a peripheral literature that concerns itself with eidetic and virtual worlds — insubstantial actualities populated by unstable entities, whose passions outweigh any ability to maintain ongoing form or identity.
Eidopolis
The first installment of a series of novellas evoking post-artificial, post-sexual worlds in an imaginary version of the Solar System. In this metaphysical melodrama, an existential crisis unfolds in lunar mega-city ‘Eidopolis.’ Death becomes the profound totem of a dawning post-mortal existence …
Agents of Erasure
The second installment of a series of novellas evoking post-artificial, post-sexual worlds in an imaginary version of the Solar System. This metaphysical melodrama charts the inter-planetary journeys of several human-like beings who kill while searching for their cosmic origins …
Jupiter|Saturn
The third installment of a series of novellas evoking post-artificial, post-sexual worlds in an imaginary version of the Solar System. In this metaphysical melodrama, the transformation of the Solar System brings about a synthesis of organic, organismic, machine and nuclear modes of being … and the suicide of a God.
The Last Days of the Most Hidden Man
Mental machines dream of great power … This metaphysical melodrama takes place in a technocratic society sealed-off from an Earth in ecological crisis. The emergence of consciousness in a machine triggers a process of social disintegration as atavistic impulses, thought long buried, erupt. A new order of mental being will come to displace and supersede the old human world. Dreaming machines portend apocalypse …