A delightful and utterly unique debut story collection from Hampton Fancher, the original screenwriter and executive producer of the classic film Blade Runner. Best known as the original screenwriter of Blade Runner, author Hampton Fancher makes his debut with this remarkable collection that bears all of the hallmarks that have made him beloved to film fans. These are stories about people and places that exist just outside of our perceptions of space and time—in “Narrowing the Divide,” an escaped lab rat winds up in a philosophical conversation with a man whose wife sleeps in the next room; in “Cargo,” a failed actor is reincarnated as a garden snail and avenges himself with a Hollywood producer’s wife; and in “The Black Weasel,” a washed-up bartender finds an unlikely traveling partner in a slow-witted drifter with a suspicious bankroll. These are also stories about survival and instinct, with elements of the absurd and the sublime. An exciting and intriguing writer, Fancher’s darkly funny and deft prose evokes the works of Jim Shepard and Charles D’Ambrosio, with a touch of Flannery O’Connor’s mordant wit.