Angielski
A late night broadcaster perched on a high balcony in the Shadow Precinct reports the truth no one else will touch: interdimensional conspiracies, alternate Earth incursions, underwater civilizations, psychic parasites, and the strange communities forming right under our noses. Drawn from "lightly processed transcripts" of the CRANK FM radio show, these stories blend cosmic horror, deadpan humor, and metaphysical world building into a serialized chronicle of a universe coming apart at the seams.
Stopries in this volume include:
The robot God died easy
The broadcaster interviews the leader of a robot mystic religion on his balcony, argues robots cannot commune with God as secondhand creations, shoots the robot martyr when threatened, disposes of the bodies in the volcanic earth, and reflects on false gods.
The alien is a demon
The CrankFM mascot is revealed as a shape-shifting demon who was paid by the government to pose as an alien in disinformation campaigns and agreed to appear on the cover as a lark.
Sea Monkeys as big as a Toyota
Bank robbers using seismic thumper technology to distract a city accidentally summon giant prehistoric underground creatures that emerge and eat their way through city streets until military ordnance stops the visible population.
Genetically enhanced hillbillies
Referenced but summarized earlier in conversation as involving alternate earth visitors bringing enhanced genetics into a family clan situation.
DIY Demon Hunter
A weapons researcher with a rolling medical briefcase demonstrates an illumination device revealing his personal demon and a ray gun that captures it in a containment cylinder, then disposes of it in the volcanic hell earth through the orb.
Surplus military personnel:
A wealthy alternate earth depopulationist recruits military veterans for an agrarian colony experiment on a pristine earth that devolves into exploitation, cannibalism, and mass death, framed as what happens when mythology is handed to men without the substance to sustain it.
Operation Indigo Bunting
An indigo bunting spotted at a consulting location prompts the broadcaster to name the large scale agent-driven incursion being tracked, distinguishing it from conventional invasion and noting it will arrive in waves that look like internal strife.
Graboids in real life
Seismic thumper technology used by interdimensional bank robbers accidentally summons underground creatures that eat their way through a city in Pac-Man patterns until military ordnance reduces the population and they retreat.
Welcome to the Pirate Universe
Observing a triple cross gold heist on an alternate earth as Kane's guest, the broadcaster watches two crews rob each other before marshals take the gold, concluding the post-rift world is naked resource extraction with no ideological cover.
