Escape your creditors with suspended animation! Leave your money to your clone! Live in your favorite actress' head for just pennies a day! Nebula- and Sturgeon-nominated author Kenneth Schneyer explores the seams where humanity and technology, society and individuality intersect, in thirteen mind-bending, thought-provoking tales of near and far futures that will amuse, amaze, and unsettle. The law will change, and the heart will change, and the heart will change the law. These stories confront the question of just what makes and keeps us human. The collection includes four new, previously unpublished stories: "Grapple with Thee", "Half a Degree", "Exceptionalism", and "The Orpheus Fountain". "The stories here are formally ingenious, even startling, and at the same time full of heart; the combination is brilliant and delightful. More please!" — Kim Stanley Robinson, author of 2312 and Shaman: A Novel of the Ice Age.
Author
Kenneth Schneyer was nominated for both the Nebula Award and the Sturgeon Memorial Award for his story, "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer". His fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clockwork Phoenix 3 & 4, Escape Pod, Podcastle, Pseudopod, and elsewhere. This first collection, The Law & the Heart, appeared in 2014, and his second collection, Anthems Outside Time and Other Strange Voices, appeared in 2020. He is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop, and a member of both the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop and Codex Writers. He studied theater at Wesleyan and law at Michigan, and is now Professor of Humanities and Legal Studies at Johnson & Wales University. Born in Detroit, he now lives in Rhode Island with one singer, one dancer, one actor, and things with fangs. He blogs, sort of, at http://ken-schneyer.livejournal.com.
