The Drift Condition

The Drift Condition follows a collection of very nearly ordinary people living in a world that has an unfortunate habit of coming loose at the metaphysical seams. Luck—normally a polite, unobtrusive force—has developed a wobble. Civic systems misbehave like bored deities. And somewhere beneath everything, the machinery that keeps reality pointing mostly in the right direction has begun to rattle like an ageing boiler with Opinions. Into this wobbling world stumble our unwilling ensemble: a man who suspects the universe is doing this to him personally; a civil servant whose commitment to procedure borders on the heroic; an academic who genuinely wishes metaphysics would stop happening long enough for lunch; and a handful of peripheral citizens who, through no fault of their own, keep finding themselves adjacent to destiny, bureaucracy, or both. As the Drift spreads—subtle at first, then spectacular in the way only cosmic accidents can be—our unlikely heroes are nudged, shoved, and occas