Witpunk The Barnes Noble ReviewWitpunk an edgy collection of sardonic fiction was inspired when someone asked on an Internet literary forum When did reading SF fantasy stop being fun Claude Lalumi re a po
The Barnes Noble ReviewWitpunk, an edgy collection of sardonic fiction, was inspired when someone asked on an Internet literary forum, When did reading SF fantasy stop being fun Claude Lalumi re, a popular Canadian author and columnist, took exception to this and, along with editor Marty Halpern, put together an anthology of some of the best works of satirical ficThe Barnes Noble ReviewWitpunk, an edgy collection of sardonic fiction, was inspired when someone asked on an Internet literary forum, When did reading SF fantasy stop being fun Claude Lalumi re, a popular Canadian author and columnist, took exception to this and, along with editor Marty Halpern, put together an anthology of some of the best works of satirical fiction in the last two decades pWhile some of the stories are speculative classics, like Robert Silverberg s Amanda and the Alien, Pat Cadigan s Mother s Milk, and Nina Kiriki Hoffman s Savage Breasts, half the collection is made up of never before published works by some of the brightest authors in contemporary science fiction and fantasy, including Paul Di Filippo, Allen M Steele, Bradley Denton, and Pat Murphy.Included are stories about a science fiction writer gone temporarily insane, a post 150 global warming society where infertile infants are killed by priests in the name of God, a boy s friendship with a turkey, demonic light bulbs, and a secretary with lethal weapons under her sweater to name but a few.p The back of Witpunk says it all When the world is just too stupid, brutal, or annoying to believe strike back by laughing at it This diverse collection of stories, which ranges from witty science fiction to black hud horror to just plain bizarre fantasy, is a typical Four Walls Eight Windows offering highly intelligent, brilliantly clever storie
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Claude Lalumi re is the author of the story collections Objects of Worship and Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes and of the mosaic works The Door to Lost Pages and Venera Dreams A Weird Entertainment He has edited fourteen anthologies, including two Aurora Award nominated volumes in the Tesseracts series His first fiction Bestial Acts appeared in Interzone in 2002, and he has since published than 100 stories his work has been translated into French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Serbian, Hungarian, and Russian and adapted for stage, screen, audio, and comics Originally from Montreal, he s currently headquartered in Ottawa.