Collective Gravities

"Two of the best stories in Collective Gravities, the debut collection by Chloe N. Clark, deal with disease. “Bound” is the tale of a mysterious pandemic and the tangled lives of the scientists searching for a cure for it; “Thematic Cartography” traces the progress of a strange disease that leaves graphs and text across the skin of the afflicted. Collective Gravities was written before COVID-19, but its speculation about illness, disconnection and the future of love is uncannily prescient. At the same time, Clark veers from science fiction and magical realism in a way that’s both mind-blowing and tender."