Stories : all-new tales

Stories All-new tales

Book - 2010

A groundbreaking anthology that includes outstanding tales by Joe Hill, Lawrence Block, Carolyn Parkhurst, Joanne Harris, Richard Adams, Jeffery Deaver, and Neil Gaiman.

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Subjects
Short stories, American.
Short stories, English.
American fiction > 21st century.
English fiction > 21st century.
Published
New York : William Morrow [2010]
Language
English
Other Authors
Neil Gaiman (-), Al Sarrantonio
Physical Description
x, 428 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780061230929
  • Introduction : just four words / Neil Gaiman
  • Blood / Roddy Doyle
  • Fossil-figures / Joyce Carol Oates
  • Wildfire in Manhattan / Joanne Harris
  • The truth is a cave in the Black Mountains / Neil Gaiman
  • Unbelief / Michael Marshall Smith
  • The stars are falling / Joe R. Lansdale
  • Juvenal Nyx / Walter Mosley
  • The knife / Richard Adams
  • Weights and measures / Jodi Picoult
  • Goblin Lake / Michael Swanwick
  • Mallon the guru / Peter Straub
  • Catch and release / Lawrence Block
  • Polka dots and moonbeams / Jeffrey Ford
  • Loser / Chuck Palahniuk
  • Samantha's diary / Diana Wynne Jones
  • Land of the lost / Stewart O'Nan
  • Leif in the wind / Gene Wolfe
  • Unwell / Carolyn Parkhurst
  • A life in fictions / Kat Howard
  • Let the past begin / Jonathan Carroll
  • The therapist / Jeffery Deaver
  • Parallel lines / Tim Powers
  • The cult of the nose / Al Sarrantonio
  • Human intelligence / Kurt Andersen
  • Stories / Michael Moorcock
  • The maiden flight of McCauley's Bellerophon / Elizabeth Hand
  • The devil on the staircase / Joe Hill.
Review by Booklist Review

The editorial collaboration of fantasy superstar Gaiman and brilliant anthologist Sarrantonio seemingly ensures a most distinguished sf-fantasy-horror collection. Mainstream and mystery stars (Roddy Doyle, Jodi Picoult, Carolyn Parkhurst, Jeffery Deaver, Walter Mosley, Chuck Palahniuk) as well as big sf-fantasy-horror names, including all-ages luminaries Diana Wynne Jones and Richard Adams, all contribute. Yet most of these stories are tepid; a few are unreadably bad. Joe R. Lansdale's The Stars Are Falling proves absorbing, though (and because) its characters, plot, and setting strongly recall those of Robinson Jeffers' searing antiwar poem, The Double Axe. Gene Wolfe's space-exploration tale Leif in the Wind is a tersely worded treat, Joe Hill's Devil on the Staircase is cleverly shaped (literally: the paragraphs look like flights of stairs), and Michael Moorcock's memoirlike Stories, while neither sf, fantasy, or horror, is wonderfully affecting. And Elizabeth Hand's awe-inspiring The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon, in which three men and two teen boys replicate the flight of a pre-Wright brothers airplane, is as magical and beautiful a light fantasy as anyone has ever written.--Olson, Ray Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

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. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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