People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy
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- Title
- People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Author
- Peter S. Beagle, Tamar Yellin, Jane Yolen, Matthew Kressel, Neil Gaiman, Lavie Tidhar, Michael Chabon
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- Prime Books
- Publication year
- 2010
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- Very Good
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1607012383
- ISBN 13
- 9781607012382
- From Sholom Aleichem to Avram Davidson, Isaac Bashevis Singer to Tony Kushner, the Jewish literary tradition has always been one rich in the supernatural and the fantastic. In these pages, gathered from the best short fiction of the last ten years, twenty authors prove that their heritage is alive and well ― in the spaces between stars that an alphabet can bridge, folklore come to life and histories become stories, and all the places where old worlds and new collide and change.
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The strength of Michael Chabon's contribution to this uneven anthology, "Golems I Have Known, or, Why My Elder Son's Middle Name Is Napoleon: A Trickster's Memoir," only emphasizes, by contrast, the middling quality of many of the other 19 entries. Chabon blends reality and fiction in his fascinating account of how his life was affected by meeting golems. The most science-fictional tale, Matthew Kressel's "The History Within Us," explores Jewish and alien concepts of the afterlife 6,000 years in the future. The line between fantasy and scripture blurs in Rachel Pollack's "Burning Beard," which explores Joseph's gift—or curse—of dream interpretation. There are probably interesting reasons why there are no Jewish Narnias or Middle Earths, but the short introduction offers little guidance. (Mar.)
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