After the Animal Flesh Beings

English language

Published July 11, 2023 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-90863-6
ISFDB ID:: 3208490

(1 review)

A series of five tales, told by a synthetic narrator, centuries after humans have died out. Some deform myths and legends that have been found in scattered records that these post-human beings, who feel they have been abandoned by humans, have found. Others attempt to transform things that have happened into new fables and myths that they can live by. Above all, they remain obsessed with the idea of children, which are a very different thing for these beings than they were for humans in ways they don't fully understand.

1 edition

Soh Kam Yung reviewed After the Animal Flesh Beings by Brian Evenson

Mechanical beings of the far future try to imagine having children.

3 stars

A set of short fiction, set in a time in a far future where humans have become mythical in a world populated by mechanical beings. The beings are 'haunted' by the idea that humans might have had children and, via the workings of a 'god', set out to recreate children, as well as tell stories (disturbing stories) about how children might come into being or how humans might have treated children.