Silicon Moon & Other Stories

This debut short story collection delivers disturbing utopias alongside hope-filled apocalypses, spectacular alien landscapes followed by mind-bending simulations. Characters often must let go of the person they thought they were to overcome sometimes horrific--and always bizarre--obstacles. Mariani examines the merging of humans and machines, and explores, with thoughtfulness and humor, the shifting natures of reality, identity, and consciousness as our species stumbles headfirst toward an inevitable transformation. The collection includes stories originally published in Lightspeed Magazine, Kaleidotrope, and Lore, as well as a new trio of linked stories beginning with Silicon Moon.