Cosmogramma

<p>In his sharply crafted unnerving first collection of speculative fiction shorts Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora.<br><br>Robots used as human proxies in a war become driven by all-too-human desires; Kill Parties roam the streets of a post-apocalyptic world; a matriarchal race of mer creatures depends on inter-breeding with mortals to survive; mysterious seeds appear in cities across the world growing into the likeness of people in their vicinity.<br><br>Through transfigured bodies and impossible encounters Newland brings a sharp fresh eye to age-old themes of the human capacity for greed ambition and self-destruction but ultimately of our strength and resilience.</p>