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Born in Philadelphia in 1947, James Morrow spent his adolescent years making short 8mm fantasy films with his friends. After receiving a master's degree from Harvard University in 1971, Morrow worked for several years as an English teacher, a cartoonist, and an independent filmmaker. Between 1977 and 1978 he produced the manuscript of his first novel, The Wine of Violence, and shortly afterward became addicted to writing fiction.
The first book of the Godhead Trilogy, Towing Jehovah, was the winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. The sequel, Blameless in Abaddon, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Morrow's other novels include This Is the Way the World Ends, a Nebula finalist, and Only Begotten Daughter, winner of the World Fantasy Award. Most of his short fiction is collected in Bible Stories for Adults, including the Nebula Award-winning fable, "The Deluge." His novella, City of Truth, also received a Nebula Award. With the 1999 publication of The Eternal Footman, James Morrow offered up his final satiric meditation on the death of God. Morrow's latest novels are The Last Witchfinder and The Philosopher's Apprentice. Morrow now lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Kathryn, his son, Christopher, and two enigmatic dogs. He devotes his leisure hours to his family, his Lionel toy electric trains, and his video collection of vulgar Biblical spectacles |
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Also by James Morrow
The Cat's Pajamas
978-1-892391-84-1
Cover design by Ann Monn
Interior design by John D. Berry
2010 Sturgeon Award-Winner
-Nancy Kress "The most provocative satiric voice in science fiction." -Washington Post "...widely regarded as the foremost satirist associated with the SF and Fantasy field." -SF Site "Morrow understands theology like a theologian and psychology like a psychologist, but he writes like an angel." -Richard Elliott Friedman, author of The Hidden Book in the Bible "America's best satirist." -James Gunn, University of Kansas "Readers will never think of Godzilla - or any other B-movie monster - in quite the same way, that's guaranteed." -Green Man Review "...the strange brew of jolly satire and moral indignity of vintage Kurt Vonnegut..." -Time Out Chicago "It's called satire, and James Morrow does it brilliantly." -SF Site "...tour-de-force of razor-sharp wit...packs a big wallop..." -SciFi Dimensions "Morrow is the only author who comes close to Vonnegut's caliber. Like Vonnegut, Morrow shrouds his work in science fiction, but the real story is always man's infinite capacities for love and for evil." -Paul Constant, The Stranger "...witty, playful...reminiscent of Watchmen..." -Strange Horizons "...a reminder that for all the shenanigans in his plots, [James Morrow is] first and foremost just a great writer." -Bookgasm "In the tradition of Dr. Strangelove...even as you're laughing you're not sure you should be." -Amazon.com (Omnivoracious Book Blog) "James Morrow's bizarrely funny new book Shambling Towards Hiroshima turns the usual Godzilla paradigm on its head: Instead of being inspired by the horrors of nuclear war, Godzilla is its herald." -io9.com "It takes a special sort of person to ...imagine a real-world basis for Godzilla..." -John Scalzi, The Big Idea "Morrow liberally salts the yarn with real Hollywood horror-movie personnel, Jewish showbiz snark, and gut-wrenching regret for the bomb. As usual for Morrow, a stellar performance." -Booklist "...sharp-edged, delightfully batty...skillfully mingling real and imaginary characters with genuinely hilarious moments." -Kirkus "...a total hoot to read...recounting horrors both imagined and real with equal aplomb." -The Agony Column "A ridiculously fun read...pitch-perfect satire." -Fantasy & Science Fiction "This is what we have come to expect from Morrow: intelligent, thoughtful, dark comedy with real bite — and in this case radioactive breath." -The New York Review of Science Fiction For The Cat’s Pajamas "His latest collection demonstrates that his rapier wit has lost none of its edge as it encompasses twisted scenarios ranging from Martians invading Central Park to having the fates of other worlds rest upon the scores of American football games.... All the stories manifest Morrow's penchant for exploring the dark underbelly of technological promise and extracting quirky moral conundrums. Morrow's fans will revel, and first-time readers may find his grim humor making fans of them, too." -Booklist "...far more entertaining than most of that tedious stuff you've been forcing yourself to read." -Fantastic Reviews "Morrow's shorter tales possess...a keen sense of folly and morality, a witty inventiveness..." -SciFiction.com "Amply displays [Morrow's] ability to juggle absurdity, tragedy, irony and outrage..." -Locus "darkly delightful satire." -Cemetery Dance For The Last Witchfinder "intrepid, impeccably researched" —Publishers Weekly, starred review "James Morrow's novel about early American witchcraft pulls off so many dazzling feats of literary magic that in a different century he’d have been burned at the stake." —Washington Post "This impeccably researched, highly ambitious novel - nine years in the writing - is a triumph of historical fiction." -Booklist For The Philosopher’s Apprentice "a tumultuous take on humanity, philosophy, and ethics that is as hilarious as it is outlandish." -Kirkus |
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