Through Soft Air

There are places where the world you know, and the worlds you don't, swap, or merge, or disappear entirely. These are the soft places, the transparent moments. The ghosts of World War One will steal your future. Masons will carve the date of your death before your gaze. Those versions of yourself from every universe there is will meet, and haunt you for the rest of days. You will find no safe footing, and the ice beneath you is cracking... Lee Battersby is one of Australia's fastest rising speculative writing stars, and here, for the first time, are collected twenty-five journeys into the pop-culture melting pot he calls a mind.

Contents:

• Dark Ages
• His Calliope 
• Stalag Hollywood
• Jaracara's Kiss
• Mikal
• Elyse
• Father Muerte & the Theft
• Father Muerte & the Rain
• Silk
• Carrying the God
• Pass the Parcel
• Through the Window Merrilee Dances
• The Divergence Tree
• The Hobbyist
• Letters to Josie
• A Stone to Mark My Passing
• Vortle
• Ecdysis
• A Very Good Lawyer
• Goodfellow
• Brillig
• Father Renoir's Hands
• Through Soft Air
• Tales of Nireym
• Pater Familias