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SHADOW BONES stories by David Memmott 1-877655-28-7 (28-WC) First trade edition, 116 pgs. 1999. $10 plus s/h (U..S. only) Cover art & design by Brian C. Clark |
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Interesting that a third of the dozen stories in David Memmott's Shadow Bones were first published in Europe, a place where Memmott has never lived. Not surprising perhaps, given his dedication as a writer AND publisher to the non-mainstream, to literature that speculates not so much about the arbitrary manners of our crumbling civilization as its ground zero, about the sciene which is writing the fiction of our reality, and the shamanic nonrational forces that are claiming it back...I commend the world of these twelve stories to readers interested in fiction as a speculation on our existence..
-- from the Introduction by Thomas E. Kennedy
Includes the prize-winnning story, "Warrior, Falling Awake".
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-- from the Introduction by Thomas E. Kennedy
Includes the prize-winnning story, "Warrior, Falling Awake".
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PRAISE FOR SHADOW BONES
All these stories manage to bring us back to ourselves...as if [they] were magic mirrors by which we can see ourselves more clearly.
-- Paige Haggard, Ministry of Whimsy website
David Memmott turns out short, meticulously assembled stories informed by a poet's precision and clarity of image.
--Paul DiFillipo, Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine
The tales in Shadow Bones...sing with powerful imagery that serves the dual purpose of old-fashioned storytelling and mythic symbolism.
-- Jeff VanderMeer, The New York Review of Science Fiction
In Shadow Bones, Memmott pursues victors that gance through sci-fi and fantasy on into other magical and imaginative spaces, never ceasing to pose the central ontological question: "What does it mean to be human?" From the residual memory of clones to a grandfather teaching his grandson to fish for the moon, these unique stories manage to entertain while quietly eschewing the snug comforts of genre. A promising fictional debut.
--Brian Evenson, author of Altmann's Tongue and Father of Lies
Dave Memmott is the kind of man who has sailed across the cyan seas of many different realities. Throughout his travels he has brought back powerful tales, pearls of wisdom, and icons of mysterious origins. Now you can journey with Memmott by the reading of his magical adventures. Each story is a key to a mythological language. By reading Memmott fictions, you will become a better person with a deeper understanding of things both seen and unseen.
--Misha Nogha, author of Red Spider White Web
For David Memmott, Speculative Northwest's secret weapon, reality in our Age of Rust and Robots is about as stable as one of those particles in what's left of a Chernobyl core: always on the verge of shimmering into something that will take your breath away with its mythic resonance, wise magic, and compassionate imaginative fire. On into the unknown!
--Lance Olsen, author of Tonguing the Zeitgeist and Time Famine
When an author sends me a book to comment on, I read the book with my teeth gritted looking for something clever to say. But when I read David Memmott's first story collection, I actually called up a friend and read her a story over the phone.
--Don Webb, author of Essential Saltes
Through landscapes both familiar and tramontane, Memmott invites us on the excursions of a shaman, lighting the unknown with the combines fires of myth and unbridled imagination.
--Greg Herriges, author of The Winter Dance Party Murders
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
For more information on David Memmott, please visit his author page at: www.davidmemmott.com