Grotesque and humorous, realistic and fantastical stories about the madness of progress, globalization, and the alienation between humanity and nature. Levi's oeuvre is permeated by the desire to tell the unimaginable to those who have been spared. We are the sorcerer's apprentices, increasingly losing control over the forces we have unleashed. Stories set in a future that serves as the stage for unsettling experiments. Seriousness and satire are closely intertwined in these 14 narratives, where Levi's interest in the natural sciences merges with his literary talent. "In an unsettling way, more relevant than ever.".