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The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories
| Author: | Jeffrey Ford |
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Golden Gryphon Press, 2002 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
At times literary, at other times surreal, this collection offers a diverse range of stories that deal with real-life conflicts, human values, and coming-of-age experiences, all placed within fantastical settings. An author's search for an elusive Kafka story leads to a potentially cursed book in "Bright Morning," while in the award-winning "Exo-Skeleton Town," humans dress in protective exoskins conveying the personas of bygone Hollywood movie stars in order to barter old Earth movies for an alien aphrodisiac. A young boy comes to term with "Creation" when he molds a man out of the detritus of a nearby forest, and in the title story, a great fantasy writer loses touch with the world he has created and pleads with his young assistant to help him visualize the story's end and enable him to complete his greatest novel ever. An eclectic offering, these witty and modern fables blend mundane surroundings with eerie situations.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Comprehending Strangeness of Jeffrey Ford - essay by Michael Swanwick
- Creation - (2002) - short story
- Out of the Canyon - short story
- The Fantasy Writer's Assistant - (2000) - short story
- The Far Oasis - (2000) - short story
- The Woman Who Counts Her Breath - (1994) - short story
- At Reparata - (1999) - novelette
- Pansolapia - (1999) - short story
- Exo-Skeleton Town - (2000) - novelette
- The Honeyed Knot - (2001) - short story
- Something by the Sea - novelette
- The Delicate - (1994) - short story
- Malthusian's Zombie - (2000) - novelette
- On the Road to New Egypt - (1995) - short story
- Floating in Lindrethool - (2001) - novelette
- High Tea with Jules Verne - (2000) - short story
- Bright Morning - (2002) - novelette
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