That the beetle god was dying was clear enough - maybe the fact it was dying meant it had never been a god. How would we know?
Here are worlds dealing with environmental catastrophe; an alternative reality where magical creatures perform the work of industrialisation, the real town of Dudley and its subterranean mirror-world Yeldud; an alternative political history, where Labour leader Mary Macarthur almost becomes British Prime Minister in the 1920s and a 1970s Birmingham where workers catch space-ferries to quarries on the moon.
Necrosmologies is a speculative fiction collection that reimagines industrial process and the lives of the working-class with all the charm of Calvino and Borges.