Epic worlds collide in a race against time in this thrilling sci-fi novel from World Fantasy Award finalist Fiona Moore.

Ken Usagi, a daring young journalist from the icy wilderness of Nunavut, is thrust into a perilous journey through the war-ravaged remnants of the former United States. Haunted by a chilling encounter with a mysterious biotechnical machine-a relic from his troubled childhood-he becomes convinced it holds the key to ending the devastating conflict tearing the world apart.

Far to the south, Totchli, a brilliant young biotechnician from a Mesoamerican society pummeled by catastrophic climate change, receives a desperate order. He must venture north to uncover the fate of a critical colonial expedition, a mission that once carried the last hopes of his people's survival. Communication channels with the expedition have fallen eerily silent.

As Ken and Totchli embark on their separate quests, the very fabric of reality begins to unravel. Their paths converge, leading to a fateful encounter where the boundaries of their worlds blur and shatter.

In a race against time, with the fate of two worlds hanging in the balance, Ken and Totchli must navigate a web of secrets, dangers, and cosmic forces that threaten to consume everything they hold dear. Can they unite to save their shattered worlds, or will they be forced to watch as everything they know and love is destroyed?

In Global Taiwanese, Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates in London and Toronto, along with professionals living in Taipei, use their shared Taiwanese identities to construct and maintain global and local networks.

Based on a three-year-long ethnographic study that incorporates interviews with people from diverse backgrounds, generations, and histories, this book explores what their different experiences tell us about migration in tolerant and hostile regimes.

Global Taiwanese considers the implications in leveraging their Taiwanese ethnic identity for both business and personal purposes. As people become increasingly mobile, ethnic identity becomes more important as a means of negotiating transnational encounters; however, at the same time, the opportunities it offers are rooted in local cultural practices, requiring professionals and other migrants to develop complex social strategies that link and cross the global and local levels.

With rich ethnographic detail, this book contributes to the understanding of the migrant experience and how it varies from location to location, how migration more generally changes in response to wider socioeconomic factors, and, finally, of the specific case of Taiwan and how the distinctive nature of its diaspora emerges through wider discourses of Chineseness and pan-Asian identity.

Fiona Moore is a Canadian-born academic, writer and critic living in London. Her work has been shortlisted for BSFA Awards and a World Fantasy Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Asimov's, Interzone, ParSec and elsewhere, and has been selected for four consecutive editions of The Best of British Science Fiction.

Eighteen stories drawn from more than a decade of publications, plus the title story: a brand new novelette that appears here for the first time.

From a woman rebelling against the corporation that has turned her into living, breathing product placement to a story of misfit automata that have outlived their sell-by date. From a murder case involving an AI car to the hunt for a sentient battle tank lost somewhere in the jungle... These stories show us disturbing futures that may be a lot closer than we like to think.

Contents:

Terms And Conditions

Morning in the Republic of America

Selma Eats

Doomed Youth

Leave Only Footprints

The Ghosts of Trees

Push A Little Button

The Island of Misfit Toys

Mnemotechnic

The Kindly Race

Proteus in the City

That Fish Sex Movie

Rabbit Season

The Mouse Trap

The Stepford App

Jolene

The Lori

Human Resources

Every Little Star

About the Author

Of The Lori: From a technology perspective, this is a beautiful example of how real AI might fail. - Rocket Stack Rank

Of Every Little Star: It's a great story, well thought out and well dramatized - Locus (staff pick)

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