The newest edition of All Tomorrows, my weekly Coilhouse column, is up. This week it's focused on the late Michael G. Coney's underrated classic Cat Karina:
At some unspecified (by our time scale, at least) point in the future, humanity’s starfaring civilization has collapsed, leaving True Humans and “Specialists” (human animal-hybrids originally engineered for colonization) in an uneasy peace. On top of it all, the entire damn planet’s converted en masse to an alien religion called the Kikihuahua Examples, forbidding metal working, fire and killing. In all this, a young “felina” named Karina gets tied in with an immortal race of sorceresses, the Dedos, trying to manipulate possible futures to release their alien god from a reality bomb prison laid by clones of Hitler.
Got that?
The result of all the above could have, should have been a complete and utter mess. Instead, Coney pulls off a future shock fairy tale (and parable) for the ages.
Coilhouse's second issue is on the way even as we speak. More details about that later. For now I'll just say that they're one of the sharpest, gloriously eclectic and downright gorgeous magazines/web sites out there today and I'm proud to be a part of it.
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