Widow's Dozen, Marek Waldorf's mind-bending, genre-blending short story collection, offers 11 coruscating stories from a past that never was to a future too late to forestall. Subtle lives - nostalgia lit, lovingly textured - bridge currents in catastrophe from the impossible to the remote to the inevitable. A captivating vision of America's dismembered states, that is less science fiction than future-shock treatment.