About this book
It seems probable that there are no more moss witches; the times are cast against them. But you can never be certain. In that sense they are like their mosses; they vanish from sites they are known to have flourished in, they are even declared extinct and then they are there again, there or somewhere else, small, delicate but triumphant, alive. Moss Witches, like mosses, do not compete; they retreat... Each story in Sara Maitland's collection enacts a daring kind of alchemy, fusing together raw elements of scientific theory with ancient myth, folkloric archetype and contemporary storytelling. As the laboratory smoke settles, we are treated to a new strain of narrative: a hybrid of fiction and non-fiction, the atavistic and the futuristic. We re also introduced to a weird and wonderful cast of characters: identical twins who fight bitterly day and night for purely quantum mechanical reasons; an expert on bird migration awaiting the homecoming of her lover on the windswept shores of the Hebrides. All the more remarkable is that each of these stories sprang from a conversation with a scientist and grew directly out of cutting-edge research. As befits their hybrid nature, each is also accompanied by an afterword, specially written by the consulting scientist to introduce us to the wonder behind the weirdness.
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Table of contents
- Her Bonxie Boy
- A Geological History of Feminism
- Seeing Double
- On Sneezing an Uncertain Sneeze
- How the Humans Learned to Speak
- Instant Light
- Jacob’s Sheep
- Lighting the Standard Candles
- The Metamorphosis of Mnemosyne
- Anaka’s Factors
- The Beautiful Equation
- The Mathematics of Magic Carpets
- Moss Witch
- Dark Humour
- Notes
- Consultants
- About the Author
