The Amount to Carry

In this collection of twelve stories, Carter Scholz reveals his truly remarkable range and prodigious narrative gifts. Traveling from the surface of the moon to the New Jersey suburbs, they explore the places in the human mind where science and fiction merge. Here are stories that disturb the universe, probe the worlds we call home, and measure the degrees of our alienation. Mind-expanding, entertaining, and often richly disquieting, the stories in The Amount to Carry are bravura performances of the imagination.

Contents:

• The Eve of the Last Apollo
• A Catastrophe Machine
• Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
• The Menagerie of Babel
• A Draft of Canto CI
• Altamira
• Travels
• At the Shore
• The Nine Billion Names of God
• Invisible Ink
• Mengele's Jew
• The Amount to Carry