Kirjahaku

A utopia where the most privileged get to do whatever they want to do with their lives, indulging their slightest whims via the bodies whose wombs they occupy; a soldier's wife tries to love a husband who is little more than backup memory; a society in which the citizens all make merry for nine remarkable days, and on the tenth get a taste of hell; the last ragged survivors of an expedition to a savage backwater world hunt down an infamous war criminal; a divorcing couple confront their myriad troubles to gain resolution, reason, respect — but not without sacrifice. Introducing these stories (and more) from Adam-Troy Castro, whose short fiction has been nominated for two Hugos, three Stokers, and eight Nebulas.

A Hollywood hookup becomes a nightmare for a woman who discovers that the predators in the hills seem to include one very hungry tiger...The last people on Earth look for final distractions in a once-great city being consumed by desert wastelands... A barfly pauses by an elaborate sand castle and finds herself attacked by armored defenders...A man suggests to his new love that it's time for them to share their worst secrets, only to hear that hers is a little harder to swallow...How the human race will spend their last amounts of time on this planet... All this and more in nine memorable stories from one of today's most unpredictable writers.Beyond the reach of human range...a drop of hell...a touch of strange.

Available only on audio, this exciting collection features original stories by Adam-Troy Castro, some never before published.The stories collected here include The Assassin's Secret; Narrow Escape of Zipper-Girl; A Place without Portals; The Hour In Between; Greetings, Humanity Welcome to Your Choice of Species; Her Husband's Hands; The Refrigerator in the Girlfriend; Big Stupe and the Buried Big Glowing Booger; The Last to Matter; Red Rain; The Boy and the Box; Four Haunted Houses; The Whole Crew Hates Me; Cerile and the Journeyer; Evangelist; My Wife Hates Time Travel; Survey; The New Provisions; The Shallow End of the Pool; What I Told My Little Girl about the Aliens Preparing to Grind Us into Hamburgers; Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs; and The Old Horror Writer.A few of these stories have appeared as podcasts for Lightspeed and Nightmare magazines. For more information: http: //www.lightspeedmagazine.com/podcasting/and http: //www.nightmare-magazine.com/podcasting/