Alien Virus Love Disaster, Abbey Mei Otis
Alien Virus Love Disaster, Abbey Mei Otis
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Alien Virus Love Disaster
Stories

Author: Abbey Mei Otis

Narrator: Nicole Poole, Eric Jason Martin

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2019

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

Philip K. Dick Award finalist

Washington Post Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018

Abbey Mei Otis's short stories are contemporary fiction at its strongest: taking apart the supposed equality that is clearly just not there, putting humans under an alien microscope, putting humans under government control, putting kids from the moon into a small beach town and then the putting the rest of the town under the microscope as they react in ways we hope they would, and then, of course, in ways we'd hope they don't. Otis has long been fascinated in using strange situations to explore dynamics of power, oppression, and grief, and the twelve stories collected here are at once a striking indictment of the present and a powerful warning about the future.

About Abbey Mei Otis

Abbey Mei Otis is a writer and teaching artist who lives in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. Her work has been published in Tin House, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Barrelhouse, Gargoyle, and Story Quarterly, among other places.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alan

I've got a friend—a hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey's West Virginia office—whose slow, thick Appalachian accent might just lull you into thinking he is slow and thick too. Unless you listen to what he's saying. These are like that. You don't realize unless you're really paying attention. U......more

Goodreads review by Alvaro

Philip Roth would sometimes quote Chekhov's observation that the job of the artist is "the proper presentation of the problem." If that's indeed the case, then Abbey Mei Otis's highly artistic debut collection, which gathers a dozen dazzling tales, tells me we have quite the problem on our hands. Th......more

Goodreads review by Bojan

Ako ću nešto pamtiti od ove knjige, sem samih emocija koje ubedljivo prenosi, to je intenzitet kojim je napisana. U skoro svakoj priči, pre no što se osvestimo i uopšte shvatimo gde smo, nađemo se u lavini reči, blatu koje nas zatrpava s klizišta života protagonista. Poput uznemirenog osinjaka te re......more