Publisher's Synopsis
From the Introduction:
These stories came all at once. Well, most of them, anyway. Typically, a short story collection is written over months - if not years - one story at a time, emerging whenever inspiration strikes. Here, most of the stories arrived in a flurry of brainstorming that occurred while watching sunrise over the sea. There's some redundancy, which you seldom see in a Bradbury or Ellison book (the authors who most inspired their style): two moon stories, two rebooting-humanity stories. These are cast as themes, just because of the nature of this book's genesis. Of course, none of the seaside stories were yet paintings. They were, in the moment, mere doodles. But with those doodles - along with a few others, to round out the collection - this collection came together. So here you have it, a new batch of tales inspired by a magical sunrise by the sea, and the mystery of the moon the night before...
