DATING MISS UNIVERSE: NINE STORIES (Ohio State Univ Prize in Short Fiction)

Steven Polansky's universe has no heroes, no villains. His people are fallen and eminently human. They try to live difficult lives with dignity and grace, to cope with what scares them. These are powerful stories of brokenness - broken families, failed loves, dangerous intimacies, unrealized dreams - that are surprisingly tender and often comic. These are stories that are at once bright and dark, written with scrupulous moral precision.

Dating Miss Universe: Nine Stories (Ohio State Univ Prize in Short Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Steven Polansky

United States

Ohio State University Press

<p>Steven Polansky's universe has no heroes, no villains. His people are fallen and eminently human. They try to live difficult lives with dignity and grace, to cope with what scares them. These are powerful stories of brokenness - broken families, failed loves, dangerous intimacies, unrealized dreams - that are surprisingly tender and often comic. These are stories that are at once bright and dark, written with scrupulous moral precision.</p>

The Bradbury Report (Library Edition)

The year is 2071. It is a world very recognizable to our own, only now the United States has implemented a wide-scale, government-run cloning program that is tied directly to health insurance. Each U.S. citizen has a Copy living separately in a cleared zone in the Midwest. If an Original is sick or injured and requires surgery, whatever he or she needs is taken from their clone. In the two decades since the program's inception, no person outside the government has ever seen their Copy or been inside the Clearances, and no clone has ever successfully escaped until now. The Bradbury Report is a fascinating meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of as a race and society. It is a powerful work of speculative fiction, beautifully written, about love, identity, free will, aging, and intelligence that you will linger with you long after reading.

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

The year is 2071. It is a world very recognizable to our own, only now the United States has implemented a wide-scale, government-run cloning program that is tied directly to health insurance. Each U.S. citizen has a Copy living separately in a cleared zone in the Midwest. If an Original is sick or injured and requires surgery, whatever he or she needs is taken from their clone. In the two decades since the program's inception, no person outside the government has ever seen their Copy or been inside the Clearances, and no clone has ever successfully escaped until now.  The Bradbury Report is a fascinating meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of as a race and society. It is a powerful work of speculative fiction, beautifully written, about love, identity, free will, aging, and intelligence that you will linger with you long after reading.

Blackstone Audiobooks

The Bradbury Report

The year is 2071. It is a world very recognizable to our own, only now the United States has implemented a wide-scale, government-run cloning program that is tied directly to health insurance. Each U.S. citizen has a 'Copy' living separately in a cleared zone in the Midwest. If an 'Original' is sick or injured and requires surgery, whatever he or she needs is taken from their clone. In the two decades since the program's inception, no person outside the government has ever seen their Copy or been inside the Clearances, and no clone has ever successfully escaped, until now. The Bradbury Report is a fascinating meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of as a race and society. It is a powerful work of speculative fiction, beautifully written, about love, identity, free will, aging, and intelligence that you will linger with you long after reading.

<p>First appearance in print of these works. Includes stories by Jake Hawkes, Annie Dawid, Will Allison, Jennifer Tseng, Rachel Klein, Steven Polansky, Winnie Wilhelm, Christie Clancy, Julie Hirsch, and Tim Hurd. Interview with Robert Olen Butler. Each story is preceded by a picture of the author as a child, brief autobiographical comments, and a printed signature. Several authors in each issue also contribute to the comments and photographs found in the "Last Pages" at the end of each issue. A rather idiosyncratic journal, edited by two sisters, but one which consistently publishes excellent fiction. 260 pp. Cover art by Jane Zwinger. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.</p>

Glimmer Train Stories, #61

Will Allison

Jake Hawkes

Annie Dawid

Jennifer Tseng

Rachel Klein

Vinnie Wilhelm

Christi Clancy

Julie Hirsch

Tim Hurd

Interview with Robert Olen Butler

Short Stories & Anthologies

Glimmer Train Press, Inc.

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