The short stories in this collection could best be described as slipstream. Defying genre boundaries, they flirt with the hard and soft of science fiction, veer into playful absurdity, or turn darkly macabre. Often drawing inspiration from surrealism, they go to unexpected places. To paraphrase a line from one story, "They have a high degree of surprisingness." Collected herein are eighteen stories chosen from a lifetime of writing. A handful are...