Arms Race and Other Stories

Data theft, internet memes and giant octopi. Nothing is spared in this idiosyncratic collection of short stories. Nic Low looks deep into the fragments of society and finds people who are lost in a landscape of greed and technological confusion. His stories go beyond satire, aiming for the dark heart of our collective obsession with technology, power and image. Set variously in London, an Indian village, remote Mongolia, the West Australian outback and the mountains of New Zealand, these are prescient visions of the future and outlandish re-imaginings of the past.