'Hits the target every time.' --The Guardian
'The Stone Thrower is best viewed as a window on Marek's distinctive imagination, in which the mundane waltzes with the macabre... this bold young writer is refreshing the form.' --The Financial Times
'Expertly deploys the conventions of the form, with eye-catching opening lines and devious endings.' --The Observer
Intelligent clothing, superhero dictators, contagion-carrying computer games, cross-species reproduction... Welcome to the strange and startling world of Adam Marek; a menagerie of futuristic technology, sinister traditions and scientifically-grounded superpowers a place where the absurd and the mundane are not merely bedfellows, but interbreed.
Pulsing at the core of Adam Marek's much-anticipated second collection is a single, unifying theme: a parent s instinct to protect a particularly vulnerable child. Whether set amid unnerving visions of the near-future, or grounded in the domestic here-and-now, these stories demonstrate that, sometimes, only outright surrealism can do justice to the merciless strangeness of reality, only the fantastically illogical can steel us against what ordinary life threatens.
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