"A fast-paced, suspenseful dystopian picaresque, part Huck Finn and part bizarro-world Swiss Family Robinson..."
---Kirkus
Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Crawford Award. Title short story listed for the 2000 O. Henry award.
“Like many people, Marx’s critique of capital was my first structuralist revelation, the first time I thought, oh my, structure, it’s controlling everything! But of course nuance is key here. You know how gloomy you get when you first realize you are determined? Whether you feel determined by patriarchy or capitalism or whatever, a gloom [...]
Thu, May 31 2012 » Poetry » No Comments
My short story “The Flowering Ape” is currently in the June issue of Asimov’s! It’s set in the Parameter world-one in which I’ve written many stories before (throughout a great deal of the space opera setting’s timespan). It’s a coming of age story about joyriding a spaceship. On the surface, at least. But it’s also [...]
Sun, May 20 2012 » Fiction » No Comments
