Andy Duncan
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In the tales gathered in An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories you will meet a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a haunted Mohawk steelworker, a time-traveling prizefighter, a yam-eating Zombie, and a child who loves a frizzled chicken-not to mention Harry Houdini, Zora Neale Hurston, Sir Thomas More, and all their fellow travelers riding the steamer-trunk imagination of a unique twenty-first-century fabulist. From the Florida folktales...
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At the turn of the twentieth century, nobody played better banjo than the hermit Daner Johnson, who just might have sold his soul for the privilege. When eleven-year-old Charlie Poole, tired of mill-boy life, seeks apprenticeship, he discovers an occult world of myth and legend and strange premonitions. Will the succeeding years bring glory or sorrow-or equal measures of both? The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases modern masterpieces of science...
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Discover Alabama's curious underside with this oddly entertaining little guide! Travelers with a taste for the bizarre, tacky, and hilarious can visit the Coon Dog Cemetery, learn about the cattle-mutilation mystery, view the world's largest boll weevil, and sip Kudzu Tea. Only a true Southerner could capture the essence of these and other authentic Alabama phenomena, and Andy Duncan does his home state proud.
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Black Cat Weekly #7 showcases the best new and classic science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, and suspense, with novels and short stories in every weekly issue.
Mysteries
"Death of a Light-Hearted Lady," by Ruth Malone [short story]
"The Soul of the Blue Bokhara," by Frank Lovell Nelson [short story, Carl ton Clarke #7
"Keys to Success," by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]
"Mysterious Blues," by Adam Meyer [Barb Goff man Presents Mys tery]
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Tor Books
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2022
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Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella
Wakulla Springs, in the deep jungle of the Florida panhandle, is the deepest submerged freshwater cave system in the world. In its unfathomable depths, a variety of curious creatures have left a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end. And that's just the local human beings over the last seventy-five years. Then there are the prehistoric creatures...and,
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In the tales gathered in An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories you will meet a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a haunted Mohawk steelworker, a time-traveling prizefighter, a yam-eating Zombie, and a child who loves a frizzled chicken - not to mention Harry Houdini, Zora Neale Hurston, Sir Thomas More, and all their fellow travelers riding the steamer-trunk imagination of a unique twenty-first-century fabulist. From the Florida folktales...
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A stellar collection of stories of the fantastic with a distinctly American Southern Literary accent. Magical realism is the dominant mode here, and other styles of fantasy are represented among these tales, which will appeal to a wide audience and especially to readers who appreciate the Southern Literary tradition.
As William Faulkner once observed, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." And, the past of the American South lives on in a long...
