Einstein's Monsters

With a new introduction by Jeff VanderMeer, this powerful collection of five short stories explores the dangers of nuclear warfare-written by the renowned author of Money and London Fields..
An ex-circus strongman meets his own personal holocaust and "Einsteinian" destiny; maximum boredom and minimum lovemaking are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a "father of the nuclear age"; and an immortal being reminisces on the creation-and destruction-of the earth and humankind.
In Einstein's Monsters, an inventive collection of linked stories, Martin Amis presents a grotesque, inspired, unsettling vision of a world terrorized by the unthinkable but nonetheless urgent threat of nuclear warfare.

Martin Amis (1949-2023) was a British novelist and critic. His work includes fifteen novels, among them Money, London Fields, and The Information; two collections of short stories; five books of essays; and the acclaimed memoir Experience.