Every so often an original theory sprouts from the moldy banality and insipid work madness in small, isolated, and inbred fishing villages. Not often but it happens. A light flickers in the depths and lures its prey.

Warning Signs is a collection of closely and loosely connected stories of dreams and omens, specialized research and ambitious plans, apes and seagulls, poets and scientists, books and knives, unsettled lands and a bewildered people.