Above and Below @ Antipodean SF 295

Rolling myth and history in and out, always carrying something new but leaving the old contours visible beneath. The collective as character, location as all places and none, mythic cycles emerging in the cracks of modern displacement—it’s very much in conversation with your other works. The colonists are both engaged in adaptation and trapped in the paradox of renewal and undoing. The subterranean presence—spies, spelunkers, unseen economies, and unseen Leviathans—feels particularly apt for our time, as does the sense of a world patterned after unseen forces, where even a sea monster becomes a media signal. The Harbor Seal Baptists and their antiphonal singing feel like a distant echo of something half-remembered, like a forgotten liturgy. Like the theme of bridges—not literal, but conceptual ones between myth and present, between seen and unseen forces.

You will understand that it's hard to accept the time to move on and start over. That's why we write. Every wave has a counter wave, an undertow.  here