The Universe Delivers The Enemy You Need
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The Universe Delivers The Enemy You Need by Adam Marek
Plant-based skyscrapers, reluctant sex robots, pencil-wielding black-belts fighting a zombie apocalypse... Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Adam Marek' s third collection: an almanac of the absurd, a handbook to the hardware problems of being human. From driverless bodies, to life-coaching AIs, to sleep research on primates, to the effects of time dilation on married life... these stories explore the unlikeliest of possibilities the future may hold for us, as a race, but at their heart is a paradox: what happens when the seemingly limitless potential of human ability runs up against the insurmountable inadequacies of basic human psychology? Sons never forgive their fathers. Superheroes are brought low by simple performance anxiety. Billionaire space industrialists are exposed by their bad parenting skills. Hardwired into our humanity, it seems, are bugs that no amount of future upgrades can ever fix.
Adam Marek's prize-winning stories have appeared in many anthologies and magazines. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fellowship and was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. This story collection was nominated for the Frank O'Connor Prize. Visit him online at AdamMarek.co.uk.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781912697755 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912697750 |
| Title | The Universe Delivers The Enemy You Need |
| Author | Adam Marek |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Comma Press |
| Year published | 2024-03-28 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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