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Synopsis
A beautifully surreal masquerade. World Fantasy Award Winning editor Forrest Aguirre brings you fantastical fiction from the most imaginative minds of our time. Contributors to this hallucinogenic spectacle include Brian Evenson, recipient of an O. Henry Prize and an NEA fellowship along with Lance Olsen, a Philip K. Dick Award finalist and Associate Editor at American Book Review. This anthology also features Rikki Ducornet who has had an L.A. Times Book of the Year has been a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award and Terese Svoboda whose first novel was one of SPIN's ten best novels of 1994 and recently received an O. Henry Prize.
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Aguirre's prolific editing ventures led to a World Fantasy Award for Leviathan 3 (2002). Judging by the high caliber of the selections in his latest anthology, another prize may come his way. With diverse and intriguing themes, ranging from the unique problems of immortal humans to the fate of an alien who can answer only six questions put by its earthling hosts, the 20 stories here display remarkable degrees of creativity and craftsmanship. Many have a conspicuously experimental flavor, such as Tom Miller's modern fable about the devil infiltrating humankind to rebuild a temple, "The Fifth Tasle: When the Devil Met Baldrick Beckenbauer," in which a more intriguing story is told by the lengthy footnotes. Others turn Kafkaesque, such as Brian Evenson's "Fugue State," describing contemporary society's decline during a memory-wasting plague. To serve as interludes between longer pieces, Christina Boyka Kluge contributes three whimsical, one-page prose poems. Readers looking for speculative fiction that defies classification as either sf or fantasy will find it in this captivating volume. Carl Hays
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