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From the Neck Up and Other Stories

By Aliya Whiteley
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Publisher Description

“Feels like a major collection” – The Washington Post
A short fiction collection to stand with Ted Chiang's Exhalation and Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners.



The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the award-winning author of The Beauty, Clarke Award nominee The Loosening Skin and The Arrival of Missives, Aliya Whiteley. In 16 stories Whiteley deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life through beguiling gardens, rebellious bodies and journeys across familiar worlds, with her trademark wit and compassion. 
 
Witness the future of farming in a new Ice Age, or the artist bringing life to glass; the many-eyed monsters we carry and the secret cities inside our bodies; the alien invasion through our language to the Chantress and her twists on the fairy tale. Fascinating and always unexpected, Whiteley is unlike any other writer working today.

7 Reviews

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“Not all of them hit but when they did they were very good”
“People who read very few anthologies or short story collections, as well as people who read them frequently, deserve a great experience each time. From the Neck Up and Other Stories is just such a collection. This book contains 16 stories ranging in length from flash fiction to almost-novelette length and traverses a great many topics. One thing these tales have in common is the human experience, and https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/891354.Aliya_Whiteley ’s imagination in regards to this is impressive. You can read Tracy's full review at Horror DNA by https://www.horrordna.com/books/from-the-neck-up-and-other-stories-aliya-whiteley-book-review .”

About Aliya Whiteley

Aliya Whiteley was born in Devon in 1974, and currently lives in West Sussex, UK. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction and has been published in places such as The Guardian, Interzone, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Black Static, Strange Horizons, and anthologies such as Unsung Stories' 2084 and Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction I and II. She has been shortlisted for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, Shirley Jackson Award, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction awards, the John W Campbell Award, and a James Tiptree Jr award. Her stories are unpredictable; they can be terrifying, tender, ferocious and deeply funny. She also regularly reviews film, books and television for Den of Geek.  She blogs at: aliyawhiteley.wordpress.com  and she tweets most days as @AliyaWhiteley.

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