I’m reading Getting to Know You, David Marusek’s collection of short fiction, and it really is a must read. There are only thirteen stories, his entire output, yet each one shows a writer getting to grips with his craft.
The Wedding Album is a fantastic story of AIs and cloning. He brings a humanity to the [...]
The opening story in Interfictions is Christopher Barzak’s ‘What We Know about the Lost Families of —– House’.
A strange story of the generations which have lived in a certain house, it reads like Shirley Jackson or as a small town novel.
The house itself, never named, looks throughout the story like a shape in fog, always [...]
Elizabeth Hand’s Generation Loss is a strange novel which reads as a crime book, a literary fantasy and a mimetic novel.
Cass Neary is a photographer who is tricked into covering a reclusive artist in Maine. Her punk glory days are over and she is a shattered wreck of her former glory. As she comes [...]