New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley delivers two speculative tales in one volume of everyday people exposed to life-altering truthsThe Gift of Fire In ancient mythology the Titan Prometheus was punished by the gods for bringing man the gift of fire--an event that set humankind on its course of knowledge As punishment for making man as powerful as gods Prometheus was bound to a rock every day his immortal body was devoured by a giant eagle But in The Gift of Fire those chains cease to be and the great champion of man walks from that immortal prison into present-day South Central Los AngelesOn the Head of a Pin Joshua Winterland and Ana Fried are working at Jennings-Tremont Enterprises when they make the most important discovery in the history of this world--or possibly the next JTE is developing advanced animatronics editing techniques to create high-end movies indistinguishable from live-action Long dead stars can now share the screen with todays A-list But one night Joshua and Ana discover something lingering in the rendered footagexan entity that will lead them into a new age beyond the reality they have come to know.
