In this collection of five short stories and a novella, the future is solved and the garbage is piling up. Recycling is an unknown concept and all people turn to a forty-second dimension AI named Noel to learn cryptic messages about their own futures, for an exorbitant fee from Future Services.
In Trash, many aspects of this strange world are explored, from the perspectives of the creator of Noel, a child on the trash island of Detritia, an eye-streaming thrower trying to get the record for most trash created in one year, and a desperate escort caught between past and future.
In tales harrowing and possibly prescient, Trash offers many different points of view on one central question: what do we want our legacy on Earth to be?