The Glass Weaver's Tale and Other Stories

Science, in its broadest sense, is either explicitly or implicitly at the core of most good science fiction. And, while science fiction reflects upon our possible futures, it is also a mirror of the present. The seven stories in this collection capture reflections from shards of both the near and far future, of the Earth, and of places very unlike and far distance from the Earth, and of us, of people who might have once been like us, of societies we may yet be part of, and of others who are very unlike us and yet at the same time uncomfortably familiar.

This is the science fiction populating the seven stories in The Glass Weaver's Tale And Other Stories. In The Patter of Tiny Feet, one apparently small consequence of the effects of continued human population growth is explored to its ultimate limit. Needle and Groove considers the power to change the past and whether or how such a genie could ever be put back in its bottle. The deformation of a society trapped within the confines of a tiny microcosm is explored through the relationship of two brothers in The Boy Who Built A Rocket Ship. Café Arabica asks how interdigitated Universes in the Multiverse could impinge upon the daily lives of ordinary people. Aliens who fall in love with the Solar System in Holiday Home unwittingly become their own worst enemies and the engine that drives the major evolutionary transitions on Earth. The search for love, the most powerful of all human emotions, is the motivation that drives the story of The Other David Kindlebach. Finally, The Glass Weaver's Tale is a story of human biology and human society engineered to the extreme, in the hope of saving us from ourselves.

The seven stories in the collection range from flash fiction (The Patter of Tiny Feet), short stories (Needle and Groove, The Other David Kindlebach, Holiday Home), a novelette (The Boy Who Built A Rocket Ship), and two novellas (Café Arabica, The Glass Weaver's Tale).

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