Alien Virus Love Disaster: Sci-Fi Romance Short Stories Collection - Perfect for Book Clubs & Fantasy Lovers" （如果原始标题是中文，优化后的英文标题为： "Alien Virus Love Disaster: Sci-Fi Romance Short Stories Collection - Perfect for Book Clubs & Fantasy Lovers"）
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Philip K. Dick Award finalistWashington Post Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018Abbey 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 ope 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.“After I read this book, I woke up with bumpy, reddish growths along my spine. They burst, releasing marvels: aliens, robots, prefab houses, vinyl, chainlink, styrofoam, star stuff, tales from the edge of eviction, so many new worlds. Alien Virus Love Disaster is a super-intelligent infection. Let Abbey Mei Otis give you some lumps.” ― Sofia Samatar, author of Tender
Customer Reviews
Magical Realism, Weird stories, sci-fi, These are brutal and hilarious gems to me. If you like Kelly Link but sonetimes you want a bit less optimism? Then I think you'd be well-served. I laughed and then cried then laughed until I cried just from one story with almost no fantastic/magical content that I still can't believe was as short as it is. "Teacher" was the story and it is hands down my favorite one even though in most ways it scans pretty true to current reality as I observe it. So I thought my 6th grade daughter's Language Arts teacher would appreciate how on point it was while getting the perfect ending. (for what it's worth I in fact would like a magical sword to smite those who sentence children to a life of consumerist widgethood at best, and uncounted, unmourned, uncelebrated lives of violence and degradation at worst, my mistake was thinking a middle school teacher by definition would agree with all that). Her loss, this story manages to tell hard truths so surreally you recognize them but feel like maybe there's going to be some last minute reprieve for us, through the alternate dimension created by lack of dental care. Why not? The teacher returned the copy I gave her (her loss) so I put it in a little lending library. Please write more! I thought only I fantasized such embarrassingly idealistic vengeance fantasies. (with no real violence) . I will be hiding from that teacher but the school year's over, who cares?
