A utopia where the most privileged get to do whatever they want to do with
their lives, indulging their slightest whims via the bodies whose wombs they
occupy; a soldier's wife tries to love a husband who is little more than backup
memory; a society in which the citizens all make merry for nine remarkable days,
and on the tenth get a taste of hell; the last ragged survivors of an expedition
to a savage backwater world hunt down an infamous war criminal; a divorcing
couple confront their myriad troubles to gain resolution, reason, respect
- but not without sacrifice. Introducing these stories (and more) from
Adam-Troy Castro, whose short fiction has been nominated for two Hugos, three
Stokers, and eight Nebulas.