Ben Marcus returns with a collection of timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world. Here a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured from testing his employerâs newest nutrition supplement; a father starts to suspect that his sonâs precocity has turned sinister; and two architects in a failing marriage must consider the ethics of artificially inciting emotion as they construct a memorial to a terrorist attack. Itâs these characters and others that over the course of thirteen short stories showcase Marcusâs compassion, imagination, and mordant humor. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun.
Ben Marcus returns with a collection of timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world. Here a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured from testing his employerâs newest nutrition supplement; a father starts to suspect that his sonâs precocity has turned sinister; and two architects in a failing marriage must consider the ethics of artificially inciting emotion as they construct a memorial to a terrorist attack. Itâs these characters and others that over the course of thirteen short stories showcase Marcusâs compassion, imagination, and mordant humor. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun.