These 23 stories take us on a twisted, wild
ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters
as diverse as a dead boy, a onelegged international actuarial
forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a
far-sighted fetus engage in their own games of the survival of the
fittest.
The collection includes the first new short story by
William Gibson to be published since 1997, as well
as original, previously unpublished fiction by Lee
Henderson, Timothy Taylor,
Heather O'Neill, Mark Anthony
Jarman, and others.
From recent Trillium Award-winner Pasha Malla's
hilarious take on the apocalypse, where Prince is the only man left
alive, to newcomer Matthew Trafford's brilliant
triptych about the fallout from the cloning of Jesus Christ, to
iconoclast 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.