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Carol Emshwiller is the recipient of an NEA grant and a Pushcart Prize, as well as the Philip K. Dick, Hugo, and Gallun Awards. In 2005 she received the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Nebula Award for "I Live with You," the title story of her short story collection (Tachyon, 2005). Emshwiller, a key figure in science fiction’s New Wave movement, is a distinguished literary innovator who at eighty-five continues to produce mesmerizing fiction.
Eileen Gunn, author of Stable Strategies and Others says: When I visit, Carol leads me places I would never have gone alone: up onto an obsidian dome, across a river on a fallen tree, and over the John Muir Trail in a hailstorm. She has taken me into the High Sierra in search of a pie shop, and has made me an object of interest to the Inyo County sheriff's office. I can't say that she will subvert you in exactly the same way, but she will take you somewhere that expands your expectations, confronts your fears, and amuses you no end. |
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The Secret City: A Novel
by Carol Emshwiller
Also by Carol Emshwiller:
I Live with You
Cover art by Emsh, cover design by Ann Monn
Trade paperback / 224 pp.
Emshwiller's latest displays her incredible talent for writing naturalistic prose about unnatural situations as well as her ability to create a compact level of intensity.
-SF Site, featured review But all these past instances aside, no one has yet approached the trope with the finesse and grace of Emshwiller. She's a writer of such slantwise sensibilities and such deep perceptions that she conveys the exotic weirdness of such a setup - and the almost unfathomable otherness of the Betashan mentality - with uncommon vividness and startling jolts of creepiness. -Sci Fi Weekly, an "A" pick Highly recommended. -Midwest Book Review This carefully crafted, ambivalent story depicts alien and human alike struggling just to get by. -Publishers Weekly During an award-filled, 30-year career, Emshwiller has delighted readers and fellow writers with her unique brand of exquisitely rendered magic realism. The city of the title of her latest haunting book is a mountainous retreat, concealed by vines and tree roots, where alien tourists now stranded on Earth may assuage nostalgia for their home world, Betasha. It is to this now largely abandoned hideout that one particular alien, Lorpas, goes to seek fellowship after being arrested for vagrancy and escaping to the hills. There he meets and falls for Allush, a female Betashan who, like Lorpas, was born on Earth and has blended in so well that rescue is no longer appealing. Emshwiller alternates between Lorpas' account of his growing friendship with a bumbling rescuer whom he overpowers and Allush's tale of return to Betasha as the two meet, separate, and finally reunite to establish Earth as their new home world. A simple yet vivid parable on the value of cherishing the home one knows best. -Booklist More praise for Carol Emshwiller Ms. Emshwiller is so gifted. —New York Times Book Review First and foremost, Emshwiller is a poet—with a poet's sensibility, precision, and magic. She revels in the sheer taste and sound of words, she infuses them with an extraordinary vitality and sense of life. –Newsday Emshwiller's readers know her to be a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction. –Ursula K. Le Guin The most inventive mind in science fiction. –Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club Carol's stories turn the corner into another dimension. –Harlan Ellison The woman is a genius, period. –Gwenda Bond, Shaken & Stirred Emshwiller consistently pokes holes through the fabrications of our lives and reminds me of the power literature has to change the way we think. –Pam Harcourt, Books to Watch Out For Lord what a thankless thing it must be to produce such exquisiteness. –James Tiptree, Jr., author of Her Smoke Rose Up Forever Emshwiller’s sentences are transparent and elegant at the same time. Her vocabulary, though rich and flexible, is never arcane. –The Women's Review of Books Carol Emshwiller...has a dedicated cult following and has been an influence on a number of today's top writers.... It is very easy to fall into the rhythm of Emshwiller's poetic and smooth sentences. –Review of Contemporary Fiction "...damn near perfect...touchingly and complexingly so." -Asimov's Science Fiction Praise for I Live With You: A collection that manages to remind us of great writers like George Saunders, Grace Paley and Harlan Ellison all at once, though Emshwiller is a unique and wonderful writer in her own right. Time Out, a Top Ten Book of 2005 Compassion and a sly sense of humor shape the insight-filled fiction.... Lyrical and resonant. . . –Publishers Weekly Her eye for detail and ear for poetry allow her to create compact fables that resonate beyond their immediate settings. –San Francisco Chronicle Emshwiller's strange, often sad, and beautiful stories linger, unfolding long after reading them. –Booklist |
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