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Synopsis
ANTISOCIETIES is a collection of ten stories about isolation — what it does to people, and what isolated people do to each other and themselves. An ominously quiet town. A haunting young adult novel from the turn of the century. Two starving captives frozen in agony. A young boy from a doting family. A man in a cheap Halloween mask. A succession of portraits of people trapped in their own identities, some of whom insist on their own ideas because they would have nothing at all without them. People for whom being seen by another is terrifying. And, like any collection of portraits, ANTISOCIETIES is also a collection of speculative mirrors …
Table of Contents
Intentionally Left Blank
Milking
Stillville
My Hand of Glory
The Starving of Saqqara
The Purlieus
Saccade
Antisocieties
Oneiropaths
Water Machine
About the Author
Michael Cisco published ten novels including The Divinity Student, The Great Lover, The Narrator, ANIMAL MONEY, and UNLANGUAGE, and a short story collection called Secret Hours. His short fiction has appeared in: The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Lovecraft Unbound, Black Wings, Blood and Other Cravings, THE WEIRD, The Grimscribe’s Puppets, and Aickman’s Heirs, among others. He teaches at CUNY Hostos.
Praise for Michael Cisco
“Michael Cisco is of a different kind and league from almost anyone writing today” -China Miéville
“Michael Cisco’s works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself.”
-Thomas Ligotti
“At this point, it appears Cisco is simply operating in a sphere that most weird fiction writers never reach, or attain only rarely, and is doing it effortlessly.”
–Weird Fiction Review
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