Inspired by a wide range influences including early-twentieth century Russian avant-gardists, British science fiction and dystopian novels, as well as contemporary American novelists Specimen is a highly original collection of stories that explore the place where physical reality collides with our spiritual and emotional lives. In Mamochka, nominated for the 2012 Journey Prize, an archivist at the Institute for Physics in Minsk, must come to terms with her daughter s marriage to a Chinese man in Vancouver. In Peptide P, scientists study a disease of the heart that seems to affect...
Inspired by a wide range influences including early-twentieth century Russian avant-gardists, British science fiction and dystopian novels, as well as...