How to describe a world that has already become posthuman, without us even noticing? Artist and debut novelist Viktor Melamed takes on this question.

"PGT Dikson" is a series of experimental stories in which a war is waged between "military men," "subhumans," and "subhumans," and the characters have names that differ only by one letter: Slov, Tlov, Plov. The novel's absurdist world, full of grotesque images, giants, and milky people, demands the reader completely recalibrate their perspective.

Armed with his artistic experience, Melamed uses language to incredible inventiveness, creating a space where logic is powerless and metaphor becomes the only way to describe reality. This is a penetrating and hopeless look at a world after history.