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Jeff VanderMeer
ISBN: 9781892391988
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Tachyon Publications
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Features award-winning short fictions. This collection highlights the voice of an inventive contemporary fantasist who has been compared by critics to Borges, Nabokov, and Kafka. Chimerical and hypnotic, it leads readers through the post-modern into what is emerging into a new literature of the imagination.
The award-winning short fictions in this collection highlight the voice of an inventive contemporary fantasist who has been compared by critics to Borges, Nabokov, and Kafka. In addition to highlights such as 'The Situation', in which a beleaguered office worker creates a child-swallowing manta ray to be used for educational purposes and 'Errata', which follows an oddly familiar writer who has marshalled a penguin, a shaman, and two pearl-handled pistols with which to plot the end of the world, this volume contains two never-before-published stories. Chimerical and hypnotic, this compilation leads readers through the post-modern into what is emerging into a new literature of the imagination.
| ISBN | 1892391988 | | Pages | 274 | | ISBN13 | 9781892391988
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 227 | | Publisher | Tachyon Publications | | Published in | San Francisco | | Imprint | Tachyon Publications | | Height (mm) | 215 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 140 | | Publication date | 12 Aug 2010 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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"One of the things that sets VanderMeer apart is his embrace of technology and media. His online presence is considerable and includes a number of web sites, frequent blogging, a short film adaptation of his novel Shriek (including collaboration with pop rock band The Church), his Alien Baby photo project and even a project involving animation via Sony Playstation." --Wired.com  Be the first to write a customer review
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