Dream of the Pig's Head
Places
Shanghai, Teng Long Autonomous Region, 2099 (腾龙自治区上海2099年)
The Facility
It was sooty, and unmedical,
like the aftermath of coffin-fires,
like the heating of rusting wrought-iron
scalpels and forceps, to sterilize them,
like the aftermath of coffin-fires,
like the heating of rusting wrought-iron
scalpels and forceps, to sterilize them,
Hildegaard, Mycologist
Slumbering Ooze
Apostle of the Virtual
The world beyond the real is it own form of truth, and this truth attracts its own adherents, fervent and mysterious.
High Mountain, Flowing Water
Bound
The Uplink Terminal
Incubation
Metamorphoses
Secrets
Bifurcation
The future of display technology is that of the reflecting pool.
The Third Net
The Insect
A fly circles her finger, though it is not her finger.
On the Origin of Peaches
The Glitch Witch
Erroneus Heart
Strange operations at the core of the machine-brain interface.
The House on the Forest's Edge
On permanence and impermanence of consciousness within the machine.
Winters Research Station, Antarctica, 2020
Krill Mother
Fecund lurker in cold, deep waters.
Darkness
Megrim
The Old Man and The Child
Dialog unearthed beneath a grid of asymmetric basalt prisms.