Total Oblivion

"A fast-paced, suspenseful dystopian picaresque, part Huck Finn and part bizarro-world Swiss Family Robinson..."

---Kirkus

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Skinny Dipping

Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Crawford Award. Title short story listed for the 2000 O. Henry award.

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Futures, Options, and Swaps (the weblog of Alan DeNiro)

World Fantasy 2009 guest-blogging

Oh…oh hi! Anyway, I’m in San Jose for World Fantasy and am guest blogging at BSCreview. So feel free to swing by there!

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Fri, October 30 2009 » Fiction » No Comments

Infernokrusher Awards Watch: Short Fiction-ey Edition

I think my goal for “awards season” in the genre is to make sure “Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs” by Leonard Richardson wins the Hugo, the Nebula, the Sturgeon, the Malkovich…
OK, I made that last award up. But it really should win it all the same. I’ve been trying to write a woeful Infernokrusher [...]

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Sun, October 25 2009 » Fiction » 2 Comments

this is the baseline,

…or as good as any, to start any discussion about the political efficacy and/or value of any artistic project (something that’s been on my mind a lot lately, and which I hope to blog about more in the near future):

1. We must think steadily, honestly, and realistically about what it is that our works might [...]

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Wed, October 21 2009 » Fiction » 1 Comment

Reviews Afoot of Total Oblivion, More or Less

From Publishers Weekly:
As this peculiar but entertaining first novel begins, geography and cosmology have shifted. Natural laws work unpredictably. The U.S. government has disappeared and plundering bands of Goths and Scythians roam the Midwest. Sea serpents close the shipping lanes, and oil companies convert their tankers into slave ships that cruise the Mississippi. Clear-eyed, tough-minded [...]

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Mon, October 19 2009 » Total Oblivion » No Comments

Gog of Pennsylvania (Chapter 1)

I’ve decided to post the first chapter of the long poem I’ve been working on of late. This is very provisional; even though Chapter 1 feels more “set” than anything else so far, who knows what will happen in the future. After all the title has changed thrice in a triad of weeks (”replace all” [...]

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Mon, October 5 2009 » Poetry » No Comments

Intraplanetary Orders for Under in the Mere

At last, international preorders for Cat Valente’s Under in the Mere are now available from Rabid Transit Press, with deeply discounted shipping, wherever you may be on the globe. We’re still working on interplanetary orders, so hang tight…

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Sun, October 4 2009 » Rabid Transit Press » No Comments