
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 & 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 & eight Nebulas