AustLit

Months earlier, the city had been over-run by the Mothers, river-dwelling creatures who laid their eggs across the city and toppled buildings in their wake. Now a former egg-exterminator is called upon to destroy one last egg, an act that brings up his guilty memories from the night of the attack.

The story 'gives us a peek across the multiverse to a place where a single entity controls which decisions get to live on, and which branches of our fractal universe need pruning. The academic Dirk Ogelvy has discovered the truth of the Nevermaw buried among bits and pieces of forgotten history and lost texts—it exists to remove those branches that are false or unviable. It also wants to remain hidden, and even the story of the disappearance of the heretic Raskin isn’t enough to dissuade Ogelvy from revealing his truth to the world.'

Source: Review on Tangent (http://www.tangentonline.com/e-market-monthly-reviewsmenu-265/aurealis-sf/2545-aurealis-75-october-2014). (Sighted: 3/3/2015)