Aftershock & Others: 19 Oddities
352 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 2009
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ISBN: 9780765312778
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Forge Books
Publication date: 31 March 2009
Description
This is a collection of short fiction. The title novelette won the Bram Stoker Award, and its companions touch on the past, present and future - from the inflationary insanity of Weimar Germany ("Aryans and Absinthe") to disco-club-era Manhattan ("When He Was Fab") to the rationing of medical services in a grim near future ("Offshore").
There are stories that pay tribute to Ray Bradbury ("The November Game"), use a sentient killer virus as a point-of-view character ("Lysing Towards Bethlehem"), and pay unabashed homage to pure pulp fiction in two yellow-peril stories ("Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong" and "Part of the Game"). And finally, Wilson treats us to his popular antihero Repairman Jack at his most inventive: trapped in a drugstore with four killers ("Interlude at Duane's")
There are stories that pay tribute to Ray Bradbury ("The November Game"), use a sentient killer virus as a point-of-view character ("Lysing Towards Bethlehem"), and pay unabashed homage to pure pulp fiction in two yellow-peril stories ("Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong" and "Part of the Game"). And finally, Wilson treats us to his popular antihero Repairman Jack at his most inventive: trapped in a drugstore with four killers ("Interlude at Duane's")
