Welcome to the Arms Race

The long-awaited second collection from Justin Isis takes us on a sharp turn away from the ‘Huysmans in Tokyo’ feel of the first collection and into a world of near and far future shocks. Torrents of alien language and remixed fragments of science fiction hauntology merge in the valley of the shadow of unguessable metaphysics, while atomized characters scramble for self and meaning only to find themselves overwritten or revised out of reality.

Churches made of meat, spaceships powered by song, simulated authors and a soul-warping artwork that may or may not exist — in these ten stories you will be confronted with a garish neon blueprint of post-humanity, a form-fixated vision of the Altermodern less New Wave than No Wave. Welcome to tomorrow. Welcome to the Arms Race.

Contents:

• Welcome to the Arms Race
• Some Notes on the Artwork of Chris Wilhelm
• M-FUNK VA THA FUTUREGIONS OF INVERSE FUNKATIVITY
• The Stars and Yellow Doubt
• The Heart of a Man
• Brent Beckford vs Writing
• The Portrayed Man
• The Plot
• The Willow
• Defense/Prosecution