In his debut collection, Christopher Rowe offers ten visions of the world where technology, nature, and the course of human civilization have become dangerously and magically entangled. Telephones bearing ominous messages from the dead fly on birds' wings, statues of goddesses rule over southern cities, and cyclists taking part in bike races must sing hymns in order to safely cross over nanotechnology-infested rivers. A green-thumbed young woman is asked to choose sides by those who support artificial intelligences, and those who don't. A group of cartographers finds a lake where no lake should be.