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About the Book
Can machines rewild us?
An AI breakthrough connects a team of scientists with a wild dolphin, but progress is neck-and-neck with climate breakdown. Class differences are only the first challenge when romance blooms between college girls at a soil remediation site. A forlorn drone seeks reassignment after his human companion dies—but a reckless band of rebels has other plans.
T. K. Rex’s debut collection explores a turbulent timeline where the role of intelligent machines changes alongside nature and humanity, in thirteen tales from the climate crisis and beyond. This is the world of The Wildcraft Drones.
Welcome to the Grungle.
Table of Contents (Final Page Numbers to Come)
Squawker and Dolphin Swimming Together – 7
The Flowers Where Five Eighty Used To Be – 28
Forty-Seven Vacant Floors of Ur – 44
We Require Your Assistance – 53
Finally an Excuse to Fire Selina Fong – 56
Ranch Once Known as “Cowschwitz” Rematriated to Tachi Yokuts – 62
A Tent Where the Buffalo Roam – 65
A Holdout in the Northern California Designated Wildcraft Zone – 73
Selected copy from the promotional materials of Grungle Goods, purveyors of affordable quality goods from the Agricultural Jungle – 89
Fortyounce and the Seabitch of Strip Mall City – 91
The Roots in the Box and the Roots in the Bones – 126
Davu the Explorer and the Druid Tía Yara – 161
The Last Wildcraft Drone – 183
About the Author
T. K. Rex (they/she) is a science fiction and fantasy author from the western states, whose short fiction can be read in Roses & Wildflowers, The Fabulist, Reckoning Magazine, and many other places. They’re an alumni of the Clarion writers workshop, a twenty-year denizen of San Francisco, and a friendly acquaintance of spiders. T. K.’s full bibliography, socials, and newsletter can be found at tkrex.wtf.
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