Sunspot jungle The ever expanding universe of fantasy and science fiction

Book - 2019

"In celebration of Rosarium's fifth anniversary, publisher Bill Campbell has collected a two-volume collection of 100 science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories from around the world. Like space and the future, Sunspot Jungle has no boundaries and celebrates the wide varieties and possibilities that this genre represents with some of the most notable names in the field." -- Back cover

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SCIENCE FICTION/Sunspot v. 1
vol. 1: 1 / 1 copies available
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Subjects
Genres
Science fiction
Fantasy fiction
Horror fiction
Short stories
Published
Greenbelt, MD : Rosarium Publishing [2019-2020]
Language
English
Item Description
"A global science fiction celebration ..."
Physical Description
2 volumes (516; 515 pages) ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780998705972
9781732638808
  • Volume one. Introduction / Bill Campbell ; Walking awake / N.K.Jemisin ; The black box / Malka Older ; A song transmuted / Sarah Pinsker ; Water / Ramez Naam ; Underworld 101 / Mame Bougouma Diene ; The faithful soldier, prompted / Saladin Ahmed ; Beautiful curse / Kristine Ong Muslim ; Real Boys / Clara Kumagai ; Born out of frost / Mélanie Fazi ; The coffin-maker's daughter / Angela Slatter ; I make people do bad things / Chesya Burke ; Blood drive / Jeffrey Ford ; Six things we found during the autopsy / Kuzhali Manickavel ; Please feed motion ; Irenosen Okojie ; Madeleine / Amal El-Mohtar ; Notes from liminal spaces / Hiromi Goto ; Medusa / Christopher Brown ; A universal elegy / Tang Fei ; Lalibela / Gabriel Teodros ; The copper scarab / K. Tempest Bradford ; The arrangement of their parts / Shweta Narayan ; The applause of others / Corrine Duyvis ; Lacrimosa / Silvia Moreno-Garcia ; Those shadows laugh / Geoff Ryman ; There is nothing to bind our hearts together / Sabrina Huang ; Douen Calling / Brandon Mc Ivor ; Spectral evidence / Victor LaValle ; A model apartment / Bryan Thao Worra ; Water in the rice fields up to my knees / Johary Ravaloson ; The spooky Japanese girl ; Juan Martinez ; The executioner / Jennifer Marie Brissett ; Girl, I love you / Nadia Bulkin ; The castaway / Sergio Gaut vel Hartman ; A good home / Karin Lowachee ; How to piss off a failed super soldier / John Chu ; Super duper fly / Maurice Broaddus ; Rabbits / Csilla Kleinheincz ; A different mistake / Eve Shi ; Lost bonds / Margrét Helgadóttir ; The bones shine through with light / Joyce Chng ; Ana's tag / William Alexander ; Flush / Francesco Verso ; No kissing he dolls unless Jimi Hendrix is playing / Clifton Gachagua ; A pinch of salt / Hal Duncan ; Escape to hell / Iheoma Nwachukwu ; The lady and the poet / Walter Tierno ; Salvation / Claudia De Bella ; How to remember to forget to remember the old war / Rose Lemberg ; Bottled-up messages / Basma Abdel Aziz ; Acception / Tessa Kum ; The day it all ended / Charlie Jane Anders
  • Volume two. Attenuation / Nick Harkaway ; Slippernet / Nisi Shawl ; Terpsichore / Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría ; Straight lines / Naru Dames Sundar ; The dragon star / Pavel Renčín ; The mouser of Peter the Great / P. Djèlí Clark ; The little begum / Indrapramit Das ; The bearer of the bone harp / Emmi Itāranta ; Madame Félidé elopes / K. A. Teryna ; Waiting for the flood or the bathers / Natalia Theodoridou ; Sin embargo / Sabrina Vourvoulias ; Copy and paste / Yoav Rosen ; Onen and his daughter / Dilman Dila ; The love decay has for the living / Berit Ellingsen ; Portrait of a young zombie in crisis / Walidah Imarisha ; Typical / Raquel Castro ; Read before use / Chinelo Onwualu ; Soul case / Nalo Hopkinson ; Big Thrull and the askin' man / Max Gladstone ; The language of knives / Haralambi Markov ; The good matter / Nene Ormes ; No other city / Ng Yi-Shen ; Señora Suerte / Tananarive Due ; The bois / R. S. A. Garcia ; The spook school / Nick Mamatas ; The little dog Ohori / Anatoly Belilovsky ; Sunset / Hiroko Minagawa ; Ghostalker / T. L. Huchu ; I tell thee all I can no more / Sunny Moraine ; Increasing police visibility / Bogi Takács ; The house at the end of the world / Carmen Maria Machado ; The unvanished / Subodhana Wijeyeratne ; Our talons can crush galaxies / Brooke Bolander ; The Memcordist / Lavi Tidhar ; The mighty slinger / Karen Lord and Tobias S. Buckell.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

The encyclopedic first volume of Rosarium's planned thousand-page "SFF mixtape" celebrates the diversity of speculative short fiction. Campbell's editorial skills are on display in this wide-ranging anthology as he seamlessly connects stories from Lebanon, Senegal, Canada, and Ethiopia through shared imagery, and arranges steampunk adventures, near-future techno-thrillers, and fairy tales to smoothly transition between genres. Standout work includes Jeffrey Ford's brutal yet tender dystopia, "Blood Drive"; Malagasy author Johary Ravaloson's brooding political ghost story, "Water in the Rice Fields Up to My Knees!"; John Chu's exuberant, action-packed road trip, "How to Piss Off a Failed Super Soldier"; and Csilla Kleinheincz's witchy, dreamlike "Rabbits." Less successful pieces--including Juan Martinez's "The Spooky Japanese Girl Is There for You" and Eve Shi's "A Different Mistake"--feel underdeveloped or, as with K. Tempest Bradford's "The Copper Scarab," bogged down by backstory. This comprehensive survey of contemporary speculative fiction is ideal for readers exploring their tastes and anyone looking to get a feel for the impressive breadth of genre storytelling today. (Dec.)

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