Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

Six interconnected stories spanning a century of the near future, each segment a vignette on the cost of a society that has embraced radical genetic and cybernetic enhancement.

From a man forced to choose between his dying twin sister and his own survival, to a girl hiding the extent of her modifications from a prejudiced world, to a boy engineered to live underwater, the anthology builds toward a reckoning with what it means to be human in an age of self-design.

The only thread through all six is Tad Tadd, a preacher whose radicalization against, then for, human modification drives the book's central arc.