<p>Tender, nostalgic, romantic, funny, absurd, magically real, speculative, ironic, nightmarish, entertaining and elegantly rendered&hellip;these&nbsp;stories span a century of Man&rsquo;s consciousness.</p><p>Once, a man might be a Gatsby chasing his girl half-way around the world, the captain of a football World Cup winning side, a raging Picasso bull in a mythical maze refusing to yield lover or art till his last mortality-defiant egotistic gasp. Straightforward enough choices, dreams, behaviour.</p><p>Suddenly he is man interrupted, underwhelmed, overworked, ridiculed, young, rock-solid or unreliable family man, father, husband, friend; his freedom evaporates: he&rsquo;s globe-trotting inbox-fatigued nonsense-hearing corporate, military civil-serving quiet ministry of Everyman. He&rsquo;s so exasperated he might just run away and prop up a bar, or contemplate mild treachery just to get by, and he&rsquo;s put-upon, boy is he put upon, as he zigzags over&nbsp;#TimesUp, political correctness, game theory, oh&hellip; and&hellip; the women in his life.</p><p>Now here he stands staring down the barrel of the 21^st Century &ndash; he&rsquo;s superman, he&rsquo;s transhuman, he&rsquo;s disassembling, he&rsquo;s nearly done for</p><p>&hellip;or is he?</p><p>&nbsp;</p>