a collection of abnormal tales

From Sheep to the Stars

What happens when a tiny two-centimetre bureaucrat living inside your brain hijacks your speech at the worst possible moment? When a druid accidentally rewrites history by mentioning a small yellow dog? When Nostradamus concludes that his visions of the future are simply too terrible to be real and retreats to a tavern to drink himself sensible?

From Sheep to the Stars is a collection of five darkly comic, wildly inventive stories that range from the hypothalamus to the multiverse, from sixteenth-century Provence to the karst caves of Istria. Vanja Spirin writes with the gleeful irreverence of someone who has looked at history, mythology, and the human condition and decided the whole lot is funnier than it has any right to be.

In these pages, the Miljenko syndrome spreads like an epidemic through the multiverse, reducing lizard-men managers and freedom-rally demagogues alike to rambling about hiking trips and blood sausages. Nostradamus, high on henbane and toad sweat, receives a vision of the future so bleak he refuses to believe it is real. A young heraldist is led into glorious public humiliation by a mist-being with too much time on his hands. A vampire hunter ends up half-drunk at a pit trial, singing Pantera while evil-eye casters try to execute him. And a hydrologist measuring a disappearing Istrian river discovers that beneath the limestone, something ancient and patient has been breathing for longer than human memory.

Absurdist, sharp, and unexpectedly moving, From Sheep to the Stars is for readers who like their humour black, their mythology irreverent, and their short fiction genuinely strange.

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