Compassion Fatigue

A father comforts his young son hoping against hope their last little island of the Azorean archipelago won't be strip mined by the Singularity.<br /><br />A couple choose a cheap upload for the consciousness of their young daughter who is dying from a disease they can't afford to cure.<br /><br />A tourist doing yoga on a Canary Island beach watches the distance diminish between himself and the African refugees landing on a European shore. <br /> <br />A soldier is debriefed after witnessing unimaginable violence ending in an encounter with a mythical being. <br /><br />Humberto da Silva's prophetic disturbingly realized stories remind us of the bizarre disorienting and occasionally horrifying nature of life in the recent past the weird present and the fearful future. <br /><br />Humans are adaptable love is enduring but it will get weird. <br /><br />Compassion Fatigue is an unnerving and occasionally funny collection of speculative fiction.