Intelligent clothing, Superhero dictators, contagion-carrying computer games, cross-species reproduction. 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. Welcome to the strange and startling world of Adam Marek. At the core of Adam Mareks much-anticipated second short story collection is a single, unifying theme: a parents instinct to protect a particularly vulnerable child.