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from: Omnidawn Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.0108
EAN: 9781890650186
ISBN: 1890650188
Label: Omnidawn Publishing
Manufacturer: Omnidawn Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 640
Publication Date: June 01, 2006
Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing
Sales Rank: 872191
Studio: Omnidawn Publishing
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Exploring the porous boundary between mainstream literary fiction and the genres of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, this collection of short stories juxtaposes the conventional and the fabulist—with dazzling results. In Rikki Ducornet’s “Lettuce,” a petitioner in a futuristic totalitarian state pays with his life when he requests permission to grow lettuce; “Birthday of the World,” by Ursula K. Le Guin, is narrated by a woman whose brother destroys their culture when he decides he wants to be God; and the disillusioned wife in Carol Schwalberg’s “The Midnight Lover” finds the perfect marriage partner in her dreams, only to be divorced by the dream lover. Containing 50 works by genre writers Kim Stanley Robinson and Michael Moorcock and noted literary authors Laird Hunt and Brian Evenson, this compilation expands the fiction subgenre that has been called “speculative” and “slipstream.”
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Rating:  - Mayra Calvani - The Bloomsbury Review
In the United States, most published fiction falls under two categories: "genre fiction" and "literary fiction."
According to Ken Keegan, editor at Omnidawn Publishing, genre fiction, which accounts for about 90% of all fiction published, is often defined as "escapist," usually follows a "winning" formula, and seldom has any lasting literary value. Literary fiction (also referred to as narrative fiction), which accounts for the remaining 10% of all fiction published, is primarily realistic ... Read More
Rating: - Tales of weirdness and wonder
This anthology begins with a fascinating discussion of fiction and its subdivisions. The stories here are what might variously be termed "slipstream," "surreal," or "speculative" in different contexts. These editors prefer to call them "fabulist and new wave fabulist stories." They are tales of weirdness and wonder, largely set in odd analogues of our own world. Not quite like ordinary literature, nor yet like typical fantasy, they hold a unique and intriguing flavor. My favorite story is "The Third Jungle ... Read More
Rating:  - Much too long and too many mediocre stories to recommend wholeheartedly
I really hate giving this book a bad review. Actually I'm giving it a lukewarm review but even that is painful. I want to be praising this book to the skies. I want to recommend it to all my friends and tell them to read it. I want to be so excited by this book that I'm buying it as birthday presents (like I do with Gilad Elbom's Scream Queens of the Dead Sea or Ronald Damien Malfi's books).
You see this book is a collection of short stories that are purposefully non-conformist. They aren't genre. ... Read More
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