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HIGH FANTASTIC Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, and Science Fiction Nominated for the World Fantasy Award New and reprint fiction and poetry celebrating the impressive array of writers who live or have lived in Colorado. Contributors include Dan Simmons, Ed Bryant, Michael Bishop, Joanne Greenberg, Don Webb, Anselm Hollo, Pattiann Rogers, Reginald McKnight, Robert Devereaux, Connie Willis, Reg Saner, Ronald Sukenick, and many others. "One of the most exhilarating anthologies of fantastic fiction in the past 10 years." -- Dorman Schindler, The Des Moines Register Visit the High Fantastic Web Page for excerpts and ordering information.
Sara Paretsky -- "A Taste of Life" Steve Rasnic Tem -- "The Men and Women of Rivendale" Tanith Lee -- "Red as Blood" "The thing he would remember most about his days, his weeks at the Rivendale resort--had it really been weeks?--was not the enormous lobby and dining room, nor the elaborately carved mahogany woodwork framing the library, nor even the men and women of Rivendale themselves, with their bright eyes and pale, almost hairless, heads and hands. The thing he would remember most was the room he and Cathy stayed in, the way she looked when she curled up in bed, her bald head rising weakly over her shoulders, the way the dark brocade curtains hung so heavily, trapping dust and light in their intricate folds." -- from The Men and Women of Rivendale by Steve Rasnic Tem, read by Bill Weideman Order now from your local bookseller or at www.amazon.com.
translated by Alain Dorémieux Steve Rasnic Tem's first major short story collection was published in French, by Éditions Denoël of Paris, in 1994. Collecting twenty-four of his earlier works, this volume followed numerous appearances in Denoël's dark fantasy anthology series Territoires de l'inquiétude. "There is one who has struck me with his troubling and disturbing little masterpieces, one who stands out from the rest and who is, in my opinion, the emblematic writer of the eighties, the most impressive and imaginative American fantasy author I have read since Richard Matheson or, for that matter, Lisa Tuttle." -- from the introduction by Alain Dorémieux "In his style there is as much acuity as there are nostalgia, despair, and compassion. A great author and a great book." -- from L'Écran Fantastique, No. 137, July 1994 "As intelligent as it is imaginative and deeply original." -- Christian Robin, in Courrier Français: The Weekly of the Charente-Maritime, June 1994
Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Original Paperback. This ground-breaking anthology collects original science fiction, fantasy, and speculative poetry by many of the pioneers of this unique sub-genre. Separate sections provide introductory glimpses of the poetry of D.M. Thomas, Sonya Dorman, Tom Disch, and Dick Allen. Some of the other poets represented include Brian Aldiss, Ray Bradbury, William Heyen, Marge Piercy, Michael Bishop, Marvin Bell, Diane Ackerman, Gregory Benford, Kathryn Rantala, James Tate, Robert Frazier, Russell Edson, Andrew Joron, William Stafford, and David R. Bunch. A limited number of signed copies of this 1982, 230 page anthology are still available directly from the editor for $12 postage paid. Make checks or money orders payable to:
Fiction-as-catalog, improvisational narrative, extended prose poem cycle: all have been used to describe Celestial Inventory, the sometimes-horrific, sometimes-comical novella by Steve Rasnic Tem. "Something out of character, hard to classify. The closest comparison would be to works such as Brian Aldiss' Report on Probability A. It is an "inventory" (door, cotton balls, toys, walls, etc.) which a not named "I" character makes of the environment (a flat, it seems) in which he has imprisoned himself. Through this inventory we learn the various bizarre and fantastic interpretations he gives to the various items while he is dying (?) or passing over into another phase of existence or dimension. Very bizarre, sometimes very striking, often funny or weird/macabre, very fantastic." -- Eddy C. Bertin in Cerberus (Belgium) "Genuine strangeness from one of our most interesting horror writers." -- Dumars Reviews 14 This chapbook is still available from the publisher:
3 Tales After Lovecraft "The sources of horror in Steve Rasnic Tem's fiction are not monsters, but moments of revelation and self-discovery, when characters find their deepest doubts and fears reflected in the world around them. In Decoded Mirrors, Tem . . . explores three different family relationships in which the power of emotional need transforms both the perceiver and the perceived. Through its powerful evocation of personal alienation, this triptych of "tales after Lovecraft" reminds us that Lovecraft, in teaching us new ways to view our world, also taught us new ways in which to view ourselves." -- from the back cover. This chapbook is still available directly from the publisher, Necronomicon Press. Click here to order via their secure online order form.
The following titles are currently out of print:
Classic psychic detective stories in honor of such English masters as M.R. James and A.M. Burrage. Published by England's Haunted Library.
The bedtime stories a children's writer dares not tell his own children. Published by Colorado's Roadkill Press and reprinted in the final hardbound issue of Pulphouse.
Edited by Alan Ryan, this launch of the famous original horror series also included selections by Charles L. Grant and Tanith Lee. It was later reprinted as a Berkeley paperback.
The author's first novel. "Tem's extraordinary skill with words and images, as well as his tendency to write about the human qualities that really count, make this first novel a publishing event worth noting." -- Twilight Zone Magazine "The power of this novel flows from its coherence; it is constructed like a fine watch, and at the end, as the psyches of its guilt-ridden characters and the raging heart of its locale merge, Excavation attains a powerful, unusually moving climax." -- Fantasy Review A Bram Stoker Award finalist.
All contents © Melanie and Steve Rasnic Tem, All Rights Reserved.
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Volume 14 of the Stellar Audio Series featuring:
Ombres sur la Route
The Umbral Anthology of
Science Fiction Poetry
CELESTIAL
INVENTORY
DECODED MIRRORS
ABSENCES: Charlie Goode's Ghosts
FAIRYTALES
NIGHT VISIONS 1
EXCAVATION
