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This collection of 27 never-before published stories from an impressive cast—Roddy Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Stuart O'Nan, among others—sets out to shift genre paradigms. The overarching theme is fantastic fiction, or fiction of the imagination, with fantasy being used in the most broad-sweeping sense rather than signaling the familiar commercial staples of elves, ghouls, and robots. Consequently, the collection's offerings run a wide gamut. In Joe Hill's Devil on the Staircase, an Italian boy commits a crime of passion and subsequently meets an emissary of Satan. In Jodi Picoult's Weights and Measures, a young couple who have just lost their daughter struggle to hold their marriage together as they both start noticing strange changes taking place. Chuck Palahniuk's The Loser features a college kid on acid as a contestant on a game show, and in Kurt Andersen's Human Intelligence, a geologist meets an explorer from another planet who has been studying humans for the past 1,600 years. The range of voices and subjects practically guarantees something for any reader, but the overall quality is frustratingly variable: most stories are good, some aren't, and few are exceptional —Publishers Weekly

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Stories, Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio, Kurt Andersen, Roddy Doyle, Joe R. Lansdale, Diana Wynne Jones , Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Adams, Carolyn Parkhurst, Jonathan Carroll, Elizabeth Hand, Lawrence Block, Peter Straub, Joe Hill, Joyce Carol Oates, Stewart O′Nan, Gene Wolfe, Jeffery Deaver, Kat Howard, Joanne Harris, Michael Marshall Smith, Michael Moorcock, Jodi Picoult, Jeffrey Ford, Walter Mosley, Michael Jurgen Swanwick, Tim Powers

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Rok wydania
2010
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(miękka)
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Tytuł
Stories
Podtytuł
All-New Tales Edited By
Język
angielski
Rok wydania
2010
Oprawa
miękka
Liczba stron
428
ISBN10
0755336615
ISBN13
9780755336616
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Ocena
3,75 z 5
Opis
This collection of 27 never-before published stories from an impressive cast—Roddy Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Stuart O'Nan, among others—sets out to shift genre paradigms. The overarching theme is fantastic fiction, or fiction of the imagination, with fantasy being used in the most broad-sweeping sense rather than signaling the familiar commercial staples of elves, ghouls, and robots. Consequently, the collection's offerings run a wide gamut. In Joe Hill's Devil on the Staircase, an Italian boy commits a crime of passion and subsequently meets an emissary of Satan. In Jodi Picoult's Weights and Measures, a young couple who have just lost their daughter struggle to hold their marriage together as they both start noticing strange changes taking place. Chuck Palahniuk's The Loser features a college kid on acid as a contestant on a game show, and in Kurt Andersen's Human Intelligence, a geologist meets an explorer from another planet who has been studying humans for the past 1,600 years. The range of voices and subjects practically guarantees something for any reader, but the overall quality is frustratingly variable: most stories are good, some aren't, and few are exceptional —Publishers Weekly