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Getting to Know You: Stories
| Author: | David Marusek |
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Del Rey / Ballantine, 2008 Subterranean Press, 2007 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Not since William Gibson and Bruce Sterling galvanized science fiction in the 1980s has the emergence of a new writer been heralded with such acclaim as that attending David Marusek, whose brilliant first novel, Counting Heads, appeared to rave reviews in 2005. But Marusek did not come out of nowhere. Aficionados of the genre had already taken note of his groundbreaking short fiction: masterfully written, profoundly thought-out examinations of futures so real they seemed virtually inevitable.
Now, in this collection of ten short stories, Marusek's fierce imagination and dazzling extrapolative gifts are on full display. Five of the stories, including the Sturgeon Award-winning "The Wedding Album," a shattering look at the unintended human consequences of advanced technology, are set in the same future as Counting Heads. All ten showcase Marusek's talent for literate, provocative science fiction of the very highest order.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by David Marusek
- The Wedding Album - (1999) - novella
- The Earth Is on the Mend - (1993) - shortstory
- Yurek Rutz, Yurek Rutz, Yurek Rutz - (1999) - shortstory
- A Boy in Cathyland - (2001) - shortstory
- We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy - (1995) - novella
- VTV - (2000) - novelette
- Cabbages and Kales, or, How We Downsized North America - (1999) - novelette
- Getting to Know You - (1997) - novelette
- Listen to Me - (2003) - shortstory
- My Morning Glory - (2006) - shortstory
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