Central Station

In the shadow of an enormous space terminal, in between the modern city of New Tel Aviv and the old Arab port of Jaffa, lies Central Station. This small community has always been a melting pot of people trying to get by and get along, and that remains the reality in the far future. Families such as the Jones and the Chongs have lived there for generations, but in the post-Singularity they share the city with robots left over from forgotten wars, oracles that have chosen to become more other than human, and children being bred to exist both in the human and in the information streams. Now there are new factors influencing Central Station, including a vampire infected with a virus that drives her to feed on the data of those around her. Considering this is essentially a stitch-up novel, pulled together from short stories penned by the author over a decade, it has a strong cohesive feel, with each tale building the portrait of a fascinating future glimpsed through the lens of a tight-knit community.