Robert Stikmanz returns to narrative fiction with The Seven Jewel Bird. A novella set in a post-petroleum corner of the Stikmanz universe, the heirs of our fall scavenge depopulated suburbs for whatever can be sold, used or repurposed. Most of the salvage passes through a sprawling market sheltered under a ruined freeway. A market that exists, in no small part, because one old man understands technology of the past better than anyone else...