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Other Aliens
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is a powerful and flexible word. Aliens are "other." Aliens are the stuff of science fiction and fantasy. Aliens are traditional literary figures that cause us to see ourselves anew. Indeed, when we witness our "normal" lives through these strangers' eyes, we become the unfamiliar ones.
collects works of speculative and literary science fiction: innovative short stories, poetry, interviews, letters, and essays that explore the vast precincts of unfamiliarity, keen difference, weirdness, and not belonging.
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Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communitiesAbout Bradford Morrow
Bradford Morrow is the editor of
and the recipient of the PEN/Nora Magid Award for excellence in literary editing. The author of six novels, Morrow's most recent books include
and the fiction collection
. He is currently at work on
, a collaboration with virtuoso guitarist Alex Skolnick
Morrow is a Bard Center fellow and professor of literature at Bard College. He lives in New York City.
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Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand is the author of sixteen multiple-award-winning novels and six collections of short fiction. She is a longtime reviewer for numerous publications, including the
, the
, and the
. Her noir novels featuring punk photographer Cass Neary have been compared to the work of Patricia Highsmith and optioned for a TV series. Hand teaches at the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing and, when not living under pandemic conditions, divides her time between the Maine coast and North London.
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Peter Straub
is the
bestselling author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. His two collaborations with Stephen King,
and
, were international bestsellers. Two of Peter’s most recent novels,
and
, were winners of the Bram Stoker Award. In 2006, he was given the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Peter and his wife live in New York City.
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Martine Bellen
Martine Bellen’s most recent collection of poetry is
(Furniture Press Books). Her other books include
(Spuyten Duyvil Press) and
(Copper Canyon Press).
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John Ashbery
's latest book of poems is
. From 1960 to 1965, he was the
art critic and
Paris correspondent. France has named him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Officier of the Légion d'Honneur. He has received a National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and President Obama awarded him a National Humanities Medal.
and
's latest poetry book is
They have edited Ashbery's essays in
and in
, as well as his translations of Pierre Martory. She teaches at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; he is the director of writing at Pace University.
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Howard Norman
HOWARD NORMAN is a three-time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction. His novels <em>The Northern Lights</em> and <em>The Bird Artist</em> were both nominated for National Book Awards. He is also author of the novels <em>The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, What Is Left the Daughter,</em><em>Next Life Might Be Kinder</em>, and <em>My Darling Detective</em>. He divides his time between East Calais, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.
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