A speculative masterpiece of technology and mythmaking that contemplates humanityamp10The stories in Plasmas dive into a posthuman morethanhuman world where life as we know it has been replaced by life as it goes on Acrobats glide through the air attached to biotech devices an archivist presents scenes from Earth after interstellar colonization to her students and scientists in Siberia play god with a manmade beastamp10Written as a series of vignettes into futures near and far Plasmas dives into questions of legacy memory the body and technology through striking prose from one of Frances leading scifi writers Equally comfortable in the worlds of Donna Haraway and Vladimir Nabokov Plasmas is stunning in both philosophical and literary depth