Restlessly inventive, these short-stories offer glimpses into imagined futures: often dystopian, always influenced by now, with the pandemic a feverish influence, and the brutality of industrialisation a constant dread. This is a read that will shock and delight you in its agility, placing you in the perspective of narrators - both human and non-human - that you may never have experienced before. Breathtakingly innovative, identifiably humane.
This was, surprisingly, a symbiotic relationship rather than a parasitic one. The humans who had become one with plants would lay down their roots at night into nutritious soil and when the sun came up, they photosynthesised. There was no longer any need to go roaming for food. Plants, on the other hand, acquired the use of limbs, which meant they could move whenever the current environment didn't suit them. Humans also obtained the option of reproducing beyond the animals ways, increasing their numbers through such means as propagation or planting. And indeed our numbers increased, quietly, in all the places that were out of reach of cities, multinational corporations, and technology.
