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In the distant future, a drug smuggler disappears after meeting with a vicious dealer,... More > and his lover, Jess Ichikawa, a young, emotionally unstable swordswoman, sets out to find him. Accompanied by her sole friend, a singing, genetically modified toad, she finds herself in the middle of a brutal, complex struggle between interstellar criminal gangs that takes her from one strange world to another and brings her into conflict with various deadly mobsters and deviants.

Drawing on story-telling conventions from India, Melting Worlds is an absurd, poetic, grotesque, and unclassifiable tale enlivened with wild, impossible action, byzantine plots, ornate descriptions, outlandish technologies, introspective moments, bizarre occurrences, and philosophical allusions.

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A vicious killer who brings in a new age of space exploration by giving up his humanity, a young girl seduced by a... More > reanimated corpse into committing murder, and a governor of a new colony willing to commit genocide for the sake of his personal comfort are a few of the dark, nasty individuals you’ll meet on a journey through a brutal, garish, surreal vision of the future.

Prepare to be horrified, delighted, and captivated by the weirdest collection of science fiction stories you’ve ever encountered.


Prepare to be horrified, delighted, and captivated by a journey through the weirdest vision of the future you’ve ever encountered. < Less

In the distant future, a drug smuggler disappears after meeting with a vicious dealer, and his lover, Jess Ichikawa, a... More > young, emotionally unstable swordswoman, sets out to find him. Accompanied by her sole friend, a singing, genetically modified toad, she finds herself in the middle of a brutal, complex struggle between interstellar criminal gangs that takes her from one strange world to another and brings her into conflict with various deadly mobsters and deviants.
Drawing on story-telling conventions from India, Melting Worlds is an absurd, poetic, grotesque, and unclassifiable tale enlivened with wild, impossible action, byzantine plots, ornate descriptions, outlandish technologies, introspective moments, bizarre occurrences, and philosophical allusions.
Also available for a discounted price at Dorian Pratt's store on Lulu. < Less

In the distant future, a drug smuggler disappears after meeting with a vicious dealer, and his lover, Jess Ichikawa, a... More > young, emotionally unstable swordswoman, sets out to find him. Accompanied by her sole friend, a singing, genetically modified toad, she finds herself in the middle of a brutal, complex struggle between interstellar criminal gangs that takes her from one strange world to another and brings her into conflict with various deadly mobsters and deviants.
Drawing on story-telling conventions from India, Melting Worlds is an absurd, poetic, grotesque, and unclassifiable tale enlivened with wild, impossible action, byzantine plots, ornate descriptions, outlandish technologies, introspective moments, bizarre occurrences, and philosophical allusions.
Also available for a discounted price at Dorian Pratt's store on Lulu. < Less

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In the distant future, a drug smuggler disappears after meeting with a vicious dealer,... More > and his lover, Jess Ichikawa, a young, emotionally unstable swordswoman, sets out to find him. Accompanied by her sole friend, a singing, genetically modified toad, she finds herself in the middle of a brutal, complex struggle between interstellar criminal gangs that takes her from one strange world to another and brings her into conflict with various deadly mobsters and deviants.

Drawing on story-telling conventions from India, Melting Worlds is an absurd, poetic, grotesque, and unclassifiable tale enlivened with wild, impossible action, byzantine plots, ornate descriptions, outlandish technologies, introspective moments, bizarre occurrences, and philosophical allusions.

Also available for full price at Dorian Pratt's store on Lulu. < Less

A vicious killer is recruited to bring in a new age of space exploration. As this man subsequently tames the strange,... More > otherworldly creature being used to move the warship he is stationed on, and indulges in his cruel pleasures, he simultaneously wins and loses his humanity. < Less

A scientist, newly arrived at a colony on a distant world, begins an investigation of an ancient alien spacecraft.... More > Unfortunately, his efforts release a malevolent entity that seduces the man's daughter and threatens the lives of all those it encounters. < Less

On a distant world in the far future, a man regales his son with the deeds of Governor Smith, the great hero who had long... More > before made their home habitable for humankind. Although Governor Smith performed his great feat by wiping out the intelligent natives, they were, after all, annoying, loud, ugly, and flatulent. < Less