A short story collection exploring the expanse of human experience across infinite futures.
A scientist haunted by an impossible ghost. A cocky poet attempting to outrun peace. A grieving mother looking for life beneath Europa’s icy surface. A ship AI desperate to rescue its beloved crew. An ongoing fight against the end of existence. Equal parts earnest and strange, Stewart C Baker’s stories span the breadth of human emotion, space, and time. In this debut collection, gender and genre collide to celebrate relationships and empathy in all their forms.
Published November 4, 2024, from Interstellar Flight Press.
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The Butterfly Disjunct Events
Monday, November 4
Virtual launch party from 4 – 6pm PST!
Held over Zoom with free registration required. Spaces are limited.
Tuesday, November 12th
“Mystery, Meaning, and Mortality,” a joint event with Cheryl S. Ntumy and Wole Talabi from 2-3 PM, PST!
Free event held over YouTube with no registration required.
Tuesday, November 19th
AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) on the Clarion West Discord.
All-day event, with no cost or registration required.
Praise for The Butterfly Disjunct
The Butterfly Disjunct is quirky, smart, funny, and deadly serious. Narratives range from classically told to cleverly experimental, always science fiction and always a delight. Well done!
Kij Johnson
I absolutely adored The Butterfly Disjunct, a collection as vast and varied as the transdimensional words that appear in its pages. In this book, robotic haiku poets muse on the imperfect nature of translation, physicists host one-woman academic conferences with themselves through dubious time travel technology, women take up their swords and battle through the Shogun’s space station, and not even a breakup can get in the way of a good game of Heisenball. Stewart C Baker’s collection plays havoc with the space-time continuum, running the range from comedy to adventure to tragedy, asking big questions and daring you to answer them.
Rachael K. Jones, Hugo and Nebula-nominated author of “The Sound of Children Screaming”
Dream-visions of alternate realities and timelines featuring researchers, ghosts, poets, explorers, rogues, survivors, and more. The stories in The Butterfly Disjunct are as varied as the styles, and just as interesting. Full of unexpected connections, recurring settings, great feats of imagination and fascinating thought threads, this is a clever collection that is very much worth reading.
Wole Talabi, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-nominated author of Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon