In these edgy, unexpected tales, a body-hopping mercenary avenges his pet elephant, and an orphan falls in love with a sentient starship. Fighters ally to power a reality-bending engine, and a swamp-dwelling introvert tries to save the world--from her plague casting former wife. So come meet Kameron Hurley in the future. It's weirder--and far more hopeful--than you could ever imagine.

An introduction: meet me in the future -- Elephants and corpses -- When we fall -- The red secretary -- The sinners and the sea -- The women of our occupation -- The fisherman and the pig -- Garda -- The plague givers -- Tumbledown -- Warped passages -- Our faces, radiant sisters, our faces, full of light! -- Enyo-enyo -- The corpse archives -- The war of heroes -- The light brigade -- The improbable war.