IAN MACARTNEY is a writer who can be found online at ianmacartney.scot, but for how much longer?
Two husbands talk at the end of everything. A train, full of flowers, is derailed by love. Edinburgh is enslaved by city-sized alien bodies. Something close to hell inhabits the basement of a bakery and ghosts explore the energy-root of the multiverse.

The stories read like dispatches from a digital apocalypse. Written as prose, speech, thought and game, this collection is a catalogue of post-internet mythmaking, a discourse in Celtic surrealism, gay techno-hauntings, acid-mannerism, and sprawling, spitting hyper-fiction.

Written with tender, geometric prose, Macartney uses the experiences of online youth, retail labour, modern queerness, and Scotland’s quiet and mysterious sadness to address the seething strangeness of social spheres, emotional exploitation, and the looming threat of ourselves.

The Infinite Fury and other stories is published by Strange Region, a Bristol based small press dedicated to formally inventive, creative fiction and non fiction.

Ian will be in conversation with Jack Young (author of URTH) at bookhaus. Tickets cost £6, which includes £2 off the book and a glass of wine or a soft drink.

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