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Fiction
Editors: Steve Wilson and Matthew Bey
RevolutionSF presents
literate, strongly plotted science fiction,
fantasy, and horror stories. Some of the tales
are classic reprints from masters; some are
rarely seen; others are presented in less
traditional forms. There are tales from both
the talented up-and-comers as well as legends
in the field.
RevolutionSF is the home for unique imaginative
fiction.
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Fiction
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Complete Novels on RevolutionSF
Breakfast
in the Ruins
By Michael Moorcock
RevolutionSF, the revolution in sci-fi, is proud
to announce the first online publication of Michael Moorcock's
novel of crisis and morality BREAKFAST
IN THE RUINS. Originally published in 1972 to great
acclaim, this is exactly the type of story that our crazy post-911
world needs. A book that is both thought provoking and entertaining.
In this extraordinary novel Karl Glogauer, a
twentieth-century Candide, journeys through 119 years of human
folly, tragedy, cruelty, and triumph. With the acidity and
perception of Voltaire, Michael Moorcock documents man's inhumanity
to man by placing his character in eighteen historical vignettes.
Karl is sometimes victim, sometimes villain, but always enmeshed
in a political crisis that defies easy moral solution.
But circling this journey through history is
another story– the contemporary Carl who, through his association
with a sophisticated, malevolent Black African, discovers his
own humanity.
BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS is a fearful,
compelling book—told with a calm voice through clenched teeth.
"Bizarrely inventive and highly disciplined."
--Time
"A dazzling historical fantasy."
--The New York Times
Uncle
Ovid's Exercise Book
By Don Webb
RevolutionSF, the revolution in sci-fi,
is proud to announce the first online publication of Don Webb's
classic collection of metamorphoses UNCLE
OVID'S EXERCISE BOOK. First published in 1988 to great
acclaim and winner of the Illinois State University/Fiction Collective
Award, UNCLE OVID'S EXERCISE BOOK has sadly been long out
of print. Beginning November 27, RevolutionSF is honored to feature
a metamorphosis a week until all 97 stories of this highly unusual
book are available online.
"UNCLE OVID'S EXERCISE BOOK is a
lively BOOK OF THE DEAD for the 1990's, chanted by a chorus
of uniquely demented voices. Imagine Sir James George Frazier
meeting William S. Burroughs and H. P. Lovecraft for a quick
round of musical whoopie cushions. Don Webb's wit, erudition,
and imagination seem to have no limits as he pulls (at least)
97 different rabbits out of a single hat. He creates entire
worlds with a few luminous details, then shatters them to glittering
fragments. I wish I could write this well."
--Lewis Shiner, World Fantasy Award winner
"Part literary stunt, part dream
diary, part reflections on society, and part necromantic incantation,
this book is a collection of short segments (or ``metamorphoses''),
each of which creates in the space of a few lines a world which
other authors spin out into a novel. And then the story enfolds
and climaxes with such a rush that it seems more like recollection
than reading."
--From A Readercon Committee
Recommended Reading List For Readercon12 (July 21-23, 2000)
The
Transformation of Lawrence Croft, or Three
Days of the Con-Dorks
By Mark Finn
RevolutionSF, the revolution in science fiction, is proud to announce the online publication of Mark Finn's novel of twenty-sided dice and comic books. And pizza. Almost forgot the pizza.
Originally published as "The Secret Life of Lawrence Croft" in the 2001 collection Gods New and Used from Clockwork Storybook, The Transformation of Lawrence Croft, or, Three Days of the Con-Dorks is greatly revised and expanded from its original incarnation.
MagicCon is an ordinary fantasy/science fiction convention. Three days of comic books, anime, and X-Files jokes, which is exactly what Larry and his friends are looking for. Unfortunately for Larry, a long-forgotten Roman god named Stercutus is primed to make a comeback, and this particular god's sphere of influence really stinks....
"Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, etc.) fans will enjoy and [it] could well become as much a classic of the convention experience as has Sharyn McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun."
--Charles de Lint
"It's funny, mean, scary, and very true to life. If you are a member of fandom, this book is over the top!"
--Booksunderreview.com
"It is nothing less than Band of Brothers for the con-going set."
--Jayme Lynn Blaschke, RevolutionSF Fiction Editor
A
House-Boat on the Styx
By John Kendrick Bangs
RevolutionSF, the revolution in science
fiction, is proud to announce the online publication of John
Kendrick Bangs' novel of gentlemen's social clubs, luxury,
style, and aquatic transportation in the afterlife. Plus,
there's a good bit with Shakespeare in there as well.
Upon the river Styx, the boatman Charon
has held a monopoly on ferry travel since time immemorial
. . . until, that is, the day a house-boat intrudes onto his
tranquil waters, upsetting his carefully ordered life and
career. The house-boat is actually quite nice, not a problem
in and of itself. No, it's those darn shades of the dead relaxing
on board that invariably complicate matters. What's an honest
ferryman to do?
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