Ketamine Dreams
A man stands chest-deep in the Gulf of Mexico, deciding whether to walk deeper.
In nine interconnected literary science fiction stories set in the near future, Ketamine Dreams explores what happens when the world shifts faster than the people living in it.
A retired professor confronts mortality with the help of an illegal dissociative drug. A man discovers the woman he loves may not be human - and that saving her means leaving everything behind. A tech entrepreneur watches his Caribbean island empire collapse while a love song drifts up from the streets below. A young biracial man flees Tokyo on the last train out as ethnic cleansing goes procedural. A lottery winner engineers the destruction of American communities to prove a point about human nature. A street hacker in a drowned New Orleans calls on old spirits to fight new wars. Two childhood friends return to small-town Mississippi to destroy the pharmaceutical empire they built. And a therapist who helps people edit their memories begins to suspect her own have been written by someone else.
From the Mississippi Gulf Coast to neon-lit Tokyo, from a utopian Memphis reborn after plague to the flooded ruins of New Orleans, these are stories about love, identity, consciousness, and transformation - and the moment when you stop fighting the current and start swimming.
For fans of Philip K. Dick, Black Mirror, Ted Chiang, and George Saunders.
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