Claude Lalumiere writes some of the most bizarre and enormously creative fiction I have ever read. His prose draws you in with its fluidity and delicacy, and then hits you with something particularly odd, making it hard to tear yourself away. What is going on with this weird zombie family? How did ice destroy all the electronics in the world? Bio-developed megafauna? LaLumiere's stories are not full of answers, but they raise many interesting questions about the world, painting a picture of how things could be if only... I also have to praise him for including diverse types of relationships as totally normal. In one story, there are multiple adults who are in loving relationships with one another who are raising children together. The story is not about this relationship choice, and it was refreshing to see something so far beyond the nuclear family option be portrayed as an everyday occurrence.