Merge and Disciple by Walter Mosley [two short novels from Crosstown to Oblivion] (fiction)

Two science fiction novellas, weird, sexy, appalling, fascinating, creepy.  Mosley is thinking about where we've been and where we're going, what's going on in the universe, and we're lucky enough to be reading his musings.  Merge was better than Disciple, but I enjoyed them both well enough to recommend.