{"product_id":"my-child-is-a-stranger-9781990496899","title":"My Child is a Stranger","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn My Child is a Stranger, a narrator first speaks directly of posthuman ecologies, then narrates a number of melancholic and intersectional stories with dystopian themes of science fiction and science reality, and then bids farewell in the high heathendom of katabasis and fervor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Child is a Stranger shows us the voices of the alienated, strange or oblique pariahs of our community, even if we are unable to bear it. A criminal investigator's insane interpretations of an esoteric neuropath and a journalist's equally insane reasoning about the myth of reverse racism. A minor character's manic rambling about a childhood frenemy. A hermit nun imagining a Bosch-like triptych in her mind, while sitting on a chair of nails. An unwritten PHD thesis on the impossibility of language and hallucinogenic mushroom wine. The diasporic double consciousness of a poet laureate. Drunken tourists intruding into the sacred rituals of Japan. Contraband cheese smuggled from a monastery by an ex-CEO, sentenced to a future that never was. Petro-capitalism in the shadow of debased utopias. Surrealism in closed Russian cities. Guides on how to fail. Auto-crucifixion. The Methuselarity. Uppgivenhetssyndrom ... Over these scenes and more, a message spreads, a message in their story and their existence which no one will ever understand, its comprehension, not intended for human beings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrandon W. Teigland is a Canadian speculative fiction writer and apocalyptic realist largely concerned with pioneering the posthuman as a neo-decadent literary phenomenon. He is the author of the novella \u003cem\u003eUnder a Collapsing Sky\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), the novelette \u003cem\u003eMetapatterning for Disconnection\u003c\/em\u003e (2023), and the novel \u003cem\u003eNeuromachina\u003c\/em\u003e (2024). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ace of Swords Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781990496899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d","brand":"Brandon Teigland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45419066065077,"sku":"9781990496899","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4da52c5a-fa4d-42da-86ae-3cd5581565e2.jpg?v=1748390790","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/my-child-is-a-stranger-9781990496899","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}