La glándula de Ícaro

A surgical operation that removes the male sexual drive, a train that returns us to any point in the past, a genetic invention that brings eternal life closer... In this mythical collection of stories, Anna Starobinets mercilessly portrays a humanity that is reeling. Science and religion, reason and passions, instinct and civilization: there is no piece of the human puzzle that escapes her gaze, both devastating and comprehensive. The Icarus gland is a dystopia that borders on reality, where science is just an excuse to open up its protagonists and reveal their gears. Starobinets's work is pure "lyrical horror". This collection of stories is full of nightmares that threaten not only to come true, but to come true the moment they are read.