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The award-winning short fictions in this collection highlight the voice of an inventive contemporary fantasist who has been compared by critics to Borges, Nabokov, and Kafka. In addition to highlights such as The Situation,” in which a beleaguered office worker creates a child-swallowing... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Bolger: Add a description of this character.
- Etta
- Horley
- Lucius
- Shane
- Dakuwaqa
- James Owen
- Clem
- Sensio
- Leer
- Blake
- Farid
- Hanover
- Rebecca
- Juliette
- Lake Baikal
- Crake
- Rachel
- Smaragdine
- Selqu
- Pittman
- Peter
- Mashburn
- Jeremy
- John
- Delorn
- Shyver
- Shark God
- Grace
- Jeff Vandermeer
- Ahmed
- Winterlong
Quotes edit
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“Youth is a kind of insanity. It robs you of experience, of perspective, of history. Without those, you are adrift.”
Narrator of The Surgeon's Tale
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jeff VanderMeer (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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