Mark Whittaker's stories depict, with trademark quirky humour, characters on the edge of society, oddball scientists and ascetic figures searching for the purest expressions of beauty and truth.
This anthology stems from a period of intense productivity in the years immediately before, during, and after the onset of Mark Whittaker's schizophrenic breakdown. It shows an author with a fiercely individual world view trying to make sense of, and find hope and even humour in, a world from which he is profoundly alienated: a world at best unsettling, at times terrifying.
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