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NO ONE writes science fiction, fantasy, or horror like A. R. Morlan. Her unique characters–her unusual perspective–her enormous imagination–all of these traits combine to produce absolutely «different» views of the past, present, and future. The eight novellas and short stories in this new collection highlight some of the best of her recent explorations of the near-future: «The Best Years of Our Lives,» «Contingencies and Penti-Lope-Lope» (with John S. Postovit), «Cin? Rimettato,» «Boog'/4 and the Endicaran Kluge,» «Robin Williams, Speaking Spanish,» «What Falls from the Life» (with John S. Postovit), «Etamin at East 47th,» and «'Rillas.»

This companion volume to The Fold-O-Rama Wars at the Blue Moon Roach Hotel centers around outsiders, artists, and freaks (be they natural-born or self-made); three of the stories are interconnected, but they're also designed to stand alone. Each includes an afterword to shine additional light on both the works and their cultural personal inspirations. Here are four novelettes (three of them original to this book) set in a bizarrely fantastic, near-future America, filled with tattoo artists and other creative types, as well as the Hikikomori's Cartoon Kimono, the Twijfelen challenge of the Pi Zi, and the showdown between the Unnatural-Born Chimera and the Shadowfox Griefer! No one uncovers the naked, bleeding soul of modern American culture better than A. R. Morlan.

The author says: «The stories in this collection are an outgrowth of my lamentable childhood, as well as a reflection of those things in life which I found fascinating–in that they could mentally take me away from the horror of my daily life, and at least on the level of imagination offer me something worth waking up each morning for. Thus, the universes in this collection center around outsiders, artists, and freaks (be they natural-born or self-made); some of the stories are interconnected, but also designed to stand alone. I’ve included afterwords for each to shine additional light on both the works and their cultural personal inspirations. But more than a collection, to me this volume is a glimpse into my creative soul–and as such, it may not be perfect, it might not even be logical, but it is what I am, love it or hate it.» Six cutting-edge stories of a bizarre, near-future America, a mix of strange cultures and curious characters, featuring tattoo artists, origami masters, Irezumi, the De Novo Shinkansen, Qatmandude…and the Blue Moon Roach Hotel!"

Here are eight wonderful stories and two evocative poems for cat-people of all ages, including «The Hemingway Kittens,» «Cat in the Box,» «…And Mongo Was His Name-O,» «The Cat Tracker Lady of Asad Alley,» «The Cat with the Tulip Face,» «A Little Pinch Is All You Need,» «Hunger,» «White Comma,» «No Heaven Will Not Ever Heaven Be…,» and «Universes.» As Robert Reginald says in his Introduction: «This is a woman of enormous talent, whose fiction is utterly without compare among modern American masters. She sees things that no one else sees, she finds connections that no one else has ever imagined, and she makes her prose sing and vibrate with a barely constrained but firmly disciplined power, with immense feeling, with great sympathy for the all-too-human characters who people her literary worlds.» And, we should add, she has an understanding for cats that will be recognized by every reader who's ever taken in a stray, starving kitten scratching at his or her door. Great feline fancies and fantasies!

Что было бы, если бы в 2000 году воскрес легендарный лидер группы Doors Джим Моррисон?

«Не так давно обычным делом было проехать по дороге Литтл-Иджипт, где Южный Иллинойс сходится с Кентукки недалеко от реки Камберленд, и увидеть за три-четыре часа езды пять-шесть вывесок с рекламой “Жевательного табака Катца”. В расцвете лет Хобарту Гурни хватало работы».

От деликатного мурлыканья до внезапной царапины, войдите в темный тайный мир создания, которое уж точно не является лучшим другом человека – и которому, похоже, это нравится.
В этом необычном сборнике двадцать четыре рассказчика заглядывают в загадочные глаза самой обыкновенной кошки и видят отражение – пугающее, нереальное и гротескное. От птичьих следов на пороге вашего дома до вопля в ночи, от хвоста до когтей – узнайте, кто они на самом деле… если осмелитесь.