Promise
Contribuţii de Christi Nogleen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781787588127
ISBN-10: 1787588122
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 212 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Flame Tree Publishing
Colecția FLAME TREE PRESS
Locul publicării:New York, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1787588122
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 212 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Flame Tree Publishing
Colecția FLAME TREE PRESS
Locul publicării:New York, United Kingdom
Descriere
With over 50 published short stories to her name Christi Nogle has established herself as a modern Ray Bradbury. A young woman confronts her digital doppelganger at a creepy academy of game design. A mother and daughter struggle underground, finishing robots the rich will use to navigate a wasted land. A loving couple find that their mirrors are a little more wrong than mirrors used to be. Chameleonic foils hover in the skies, you can order a headset to speak and dream with your dog, and your devices sometimes connect not just to the web but to the underworld.
Aliens, of course, both walk among us and surveil us from the heavens. Promise collects Christi Nogle’s favorite science fiction and futuristic fantasy stories from publications such as Escape Pod, Dark Matter magazine, and three-Lobed Burning Eye, along with several new stories and, by special permission from Eileen Gunnell Lee, the co-authored tale “The Orbital Bloom.” Be prepared for some strangeness here: we have several types of aliens, cults devoted to contacting alternate dimensions, virtual-reality writing retreats, time-travel games and time-travel tragedies, oppressive future fitness standards, augmented consciousness, cosmic art-forms and living paintings, haunted Zoom meetings, guesthouses for the dead, Sea Monkey-like creatures who keep growing, giant worms, and communications devices to reach those who have never been able to speak before.
Like her novel, Beulah, and first collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, these stories reflect Christi’s interest in the weird and unknowable, death and dying, and the power of art. The tales in Promise will recall the stories of Ray Bradbury, television programs such as Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone, and novels such as Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin or Under the Skin by Michel Faber. They are often strange and dreadful but veer towards themes of hope, potential, promise.
Aliens, of course, both walk among us and surveil us from the heavens. Promise collects Christi Nogle’s favorite science fiction and futuristic fantasy stories from publications such as Escape Pod, Dark Matter magazine, and three-Lobed Burning Eye, along with several new stories and, by special permission from Eileen Gunnell Lee, the co-authored tale “The Orbital Bloom.” Be prepared for some strangeness here: we have several types of aliens, cults devoted to contacting alternate dimensions, virtual-reality writing retreats, time-travel games and time-travel tragedies, oppressive future fitness standards, augmented consciousness, cosmic art-forms and living paintings, haunted Zoom meetings, guesthouses for the dead, Sea Monkey-like creatures who keep growing, giant worms, and communications devices to reach those who have never been able to speak before.
Like her novel, Beulah, and first collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, these stories reflect Christi’s interest in the weird and unknowable, death and dying, and the power of art. The tales in Promise will recall the stories of Ray Bradbury, television programs such as Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone, and novels such as Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin or Under the Skin by Michel Faber. They are often strange and dreadful but veer towards themes of hope, potential, promise.
Notă biografică
Christi Nogle writes psychological and supernatural horror, dark science fiction, and weird fiction. She is the author of the collections The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future and Promise as well as the novel Beulah. Her short stories have appeared in over fifty publications including PseudoPod, Vastarien, Escape Pod, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and Dark Matter Magazine along with anthologies such as C.M Muller’s Nightscript series, Humans Are the Problem from Weird Little Worlds, Mixtape: 1986 from The Dread Machine, and Flame Tree’s American Gothic and Chilling Crime.
Recenzii
"Promise is one of the most enjoyable collections of short stories that I have read recently. Like Bradbury, there is not always a lot of hope to be found, but certainly a lot to think about."
"If you like creepy sci-fi, I highly recommend Promise."
"This collection of weird science fiction stories certainly lived up to its ‘promise’. Every story was strange, unsettling and had interesting commentary on what it is to be human… or not human, as the case may be!"
"Promise is a creative, poignant, and very human science fiction and science fantasy collection."
"I like short stories, and I like these short stories. They’re easy to digest, varied and often playful... though invariably with a hint of darkness."
"Quoting the last line of the last story in Promise by Christi Nogle does not, cannot, count as a spoiler because, as that hanging sentence informs us: it does not end. The stories gathered here may promise much, but resolution is not part of the deal.
And that, I think, is the point. Christi Nogle’s stories conduct us insistently towards the precipice, but it is up to us to step over the edge."
"With her recent Stoker win for Beulah, Nogle’s star is on the rise. Promise shows she’s a master of the short story as well—both horror and sci-fi, usually both at once. That’s another of Promise’s strengths: Nogle’s wizard at a combination of sci-fi and horror—a trick that often falls flat in the wrong hands."
"Promise is a collection of strange and often open-ended tales that are fascinating, hypnotic and make you ponder. Well worth a look if you enjoy the more experimental side of science fiction."
"Like all the great fabulists of the past, Nogle weaves the real and fantastic to create moody tableaus of unreality that are equal parts heartfelt and strange. Her stories ask big questions in small spaces, because this is where the human heart resides."
"PROMISE is a collection filled with surreal, dream-like, whispered tales that read like thread unspooling and a spindle waiting to prick and wake us—the shocking sting from a scorpion’s tail. Nogle weaves together strange musings that infect and reveal the uncanniness of the human body that makes us feel uncomfortable in our own skin."
"Nogle writes of technology and strange science and horrific futures, of the all too human propensity to turn dreams into strife and heartbreak. She conveys vast universes in terse, pristine prose with tales that roam the imagination and haunt like a spirit contemplating humanity's place in this world. Uncanny speculative fiction enriched with poetic beauty, the stories Nogle creates are both familiar and alien, as mysterious and illuminating as the Voyager's Golden Records as perused through the eyes of a non-human intelligence. An astounding collection."
"There's a melancholy underneath every Nogle story, a creeping dread willing to fill any absence it can find. Promise is an exploration of our strange futures all tethered to this unmistakable voice, one that will guide you home through the void it knows all too well."
"Beautifully written tales of the strange possible futures threatening to impinge on us. By turns strange and tender, Nogle's weird SF captures that feeling of disorientation that is at the heart of what it means to be (or to try to be) human in a transforming, damaged world and in all the worlds adjacent to it."
"PROMISE more than delivers on its premise: weird science fiction. Like many of the characters within the included stories, you’ll find more slithering in shadowy corners, and at the edge of your peripheral, than initially meets the eye. Christi’s voice is wholly unique and shines equally during extraordinary moments of despair, love, yearning, curiosity… and beyond. Don’t wait for some glowing orb or anatomically-correct android to deliver the message telepathically; listen to me: pick up this collection today."
"If you like creepy sci-fi, I highly recommend Promise."
"This collection of weird science fiction stories certainly lived up to its ‘promise’. Every story was strange, unsettling and had interesting commentary on what it is to be human… or not human, as the case may be!"
"Promise is a creative, poignant, and very human science fiction and science fantasy collection."
"I like short stories, and I like these short stories. They’re easy to digest, varied and often playful... though invariably with a hint of darkness."
"Quoting the last line of the last story in Promise by Christi Nogle does not, cannot, count as a spoiler because, as that hanging sentence informs us: it does not end. The stories gathered here may promise much, but resolution is not part of the deal.
And that, I think, is the point. Christi Nogle’s stories conduct us insistently towards the precipice, but it is up to us to step over the edge."
"With her recent Stoker win for Beulah, Nogle’s star is on the rise. Promise shows she’s a master of the short story as well—both horror and sci-fi, usually both at once. That’s another of Promise’s strengths: Nogle’s wizard at a combination of sci-fi and horror—a trick that often falls flat in the wrong hands."
"Promise is a collection of strange and often open-ended tales that are fascinating, hypnotic and make you ponder. Well worth a look if you enjoy the more experimental side of science fiction."
"Like all the great fabulists of the past, Nogle weaves the real and fantastic to create moody tableaus of unreality that are equal parts heartfelt and strange. Her stories ask big questions in small spaces, because this is where the human heart resides."
"PROMISE is a collection filled with surreal, dream-like, whispered tales that read like thread unspooling and a spindle waiting to prick and wake us—the shocking sting from a scorpion’s tail. Nogle weaves together strange musings that infect and reveal the uncanniness of the human body that makes us feel uncomfortable in our own skin."
"Nogle writes of technology and strange science and horrific futures, of the all too human propensity to turn dreams into strife and heartbreak. She conveys vast universes in terse, pristine prose with tales that roam the imagination and haunt like a spirit contemplating humanity's place in this world. Uncanny speculative fiction enriched with poetic beauty, the stories Nogle creates are both familiar and alien, as mysterious and illuminating as the Voyager's Golden Records as perused through the eyes of a non-human intelligence. An astounding collection."
"There's a melancholy underneath every Nogle story, a creeping dread willing to fill any absence it can find. Promise is an exploration of our strange futures all tethered to this unmistakable voice, one that will guide you home through the void it knows all too well."
"Beautifully written tales of the strange possible futures threatening to impinge on us. By turns strange and tender, Nogle's weird SF captures that feeling of disorientation that is at the heart of what it means to be (or to try to be) human in a transforming, damaged world and in all the worlds adjacent to it."
"PROMISE more than delivers on its premise: weird science fiction. Like many of the characters within the included stories, you’ll find more slithering in shadowy corners, and at the edge of your peripheral, than initially meets the eye. Christi’s voice is wholly unique and shines equally during extraordinary moments of despair, love, yearning, curiosity… and beyond. Don’t wait for some glowing orb or anatomically-correct android to deliver the message telepathically; listen to me: pick up this collection today."