Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories
Philip K. Dick Award nominee 2002.
What if the world ended on your birthday – and no one came? What if your grandmother was a superhero? What if the orphan you were raising was a top-secret weapon, looked like Godzilla, and loved singing nursery rhymes? What if poet laureates fought to the death, in stadiums?
Emshwiller's previous books (Joy in Our Cause, Carmen Dog,Ledoyt, and others) have won her a devoted cult following. Her short fiction is about women and men, monsters, obsessions, art, and falling in love. She writes witty, humane, endearingly odd stories that play with all the genres and conventions you can put a name to – science fiction, Western, romance, postmodern, tabloid, literary – and some that haven't even been invented yet.
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Contents:
- Grandma
- The Paganini of Jacob's Gully
- Modillion
- Mrs. Jones
- Acceptance Speech
- One Part of the Self is Always Tall and Dark
- Foster Mother
- Creature
- The Project
- It Comes from Deep Inside
- Prejudice and Pride
- Report to the Men's Club
- Overlooking
- Water Master
- Abominable
- Desert Child
- Venus Rising
- Nose
- After All
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Carol Emshwiller
Carol Emshwiller (1921-2019) was an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction." Among her novels are Carmen Dog and The Mount. She has also written two cowboy novels called Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill. Her most recent novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007.
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