Nominated for the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award! Late in the twenty-first century, big business is booming and state institutions are thriving thanks to advances in genetic engineering, which have produced a compliant population free of addictions. Violent crime is a rarity. Hyper-intelligent Jayna is a star performer at top predictive agency Mayhew McCline, where she forecasts economic and social trends. A brilliant mathematical modeler, she far outshines her co-workers, often correcting their work on the quiet. Her latest coup: finding a link between northeasterly winds and violent crime. When a string of events contradicts her forecasts, Jayna suspects she needs more data and better intuition. She needs direct interactions with the rest of society. Bravely—and naively—she sets out to disrupt her strict routine and stumbles unwittingly into a world where her IQ is increasingly irrelevant…a place where human relationships and the complexity of life are difficult for her to decode. And as she experiments with taking risks, she crosses the line into corporate intrigue and disloyalty. Can Jayna confront the question of what it means to live a “normal” life? Or has the possibility of a “normal” life already been eclipsed for everyone?

Step onto the path of eternal love, and discover yourself within this collection of enchanting poems, Tranquil Infinity, written by poet Sally-Ann Charnock. From the depths of tragedy and grief comes deeply inspiring verse overflowing with beauty and light that can warm your heart and touch your soul.

This collection provides a timeless look into a mother's love, the eternal bonds she shares with her family, and the healing that must happen after the tragic loss of a child. It offers guidance, empowerment, and clarity as Sally-Ann expertly taps into the deep world of emotions and imagination.

Whether you have experienced a deep personal loss or simply wish to go on a journey of the soul, Tranquil Infinity can move and inspire you.

Time places me nowhere,

For now I have reached

The place where I begin.

The need to write

Is here with me now,

The words

Spilling out onto the paper.

Time places me here

With you, reading

My words written

At the end of the beginning.

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. In a near-future London, Millie Dack places her hand on her belly to feel her baby kick, resolute in her decision to be a single parent. Across town, her closest friend-a hungover Toni Munroe-steps into the shower and places her hand on a medic console. The diagnosis is devastating. In this stunning, bittersweet family saga, Millie and Toni experience the aftershocks of human progress as their children and grandchildren embrace new ways of making babies. When infertility is a thing of the past, a man can create a child without a woman, a woman can create a child without a man, and artificial wombs eliminate the struggles of pregnancy. But what does it mean to be a parent? A child? A family? Through a series of interconnected vignettes that spans five generations and three continents, this emotionally taut story explores the anxieties that arise when the science of fertility claims to deliver all the answers.