Bethelem

This showed up in Tesseracts 5, edited by Yves Meynard and Robert Runté, one of a semiregular antho series put out by Tesseracts Books of Edmonton (now engulfed and incorporated into Edge Books, of Calgary). It basically uses a failed relationship as a vantage point on global ecological collapse, through the eyes of a failed academic who’s learned that quantum mechanics can be used for things beyond the usual parallel worlds and DVD players.

Denial, for instance...