From a fearless new voice in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut comes a collection of bleakly funny stories from an imagined future epoch crippled by the unfulfilled promise of technology. With a heightened sense of the lurking doom that Orwell and Huxley once so expertly envisioned, each story offers a glimpse into an intricately imagined world - one in which clouds are treated with behavioural serum, children are handicapped by the ability to float, and all food is made of meat - and parodies our contemporary notions of family, government and science with razor-sharp wit.