LoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life. Cordless modern m[...]
Short stories translated from the Icelandic. Eliasson's literary field abounds with eccentric characters, children, old people, animals and ghosts, all of them belonging to cultural margins, and the constant proximity of something 'other' than the human world, like the fossilised tree of the title.[...]