First published 2019
A monk stands over his friend's cremation pyre, offering prayers while nano-technology blurs the line between death and digital resurrection. An astronaut drifts on a comet's trajectory toward the sun, abandoned by the person she trusted most. A time angel walks among us, built by human hands to safeguard the memories of generations long past. These three stories anchor Jason Sanford's second collection, which gathers nine tales that leap across galaxies and centuries. Each story examines how technology reshapes the most fundamental human experiences. The collection moves from intimate moments of loss and betrayal to vast questions about memory and survival. Sanford crafts worlds where the boundaries between flesh and circuitry dissolve, where friendship becomes a weapon, and where the past refuses to stay buried. At its heart, this collection asks what remains essentially human when everything else can be rewired, rebuilt, or resurrected.
Genres: short-stories, science-fiction, speculative-fiction, technology
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
225 pages · Paperback · Independently published