Shades Fantastic

By Bruce Boston
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Published: Dec. 02, 2011
Words: 4,727 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781466053342

Short description

2006 BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNER Shades Fantastic is a collection of SF, horror, fantasy, surreal, and mainstream poems by SFPA Grandmaster Poet Bruce Boston. It includes five originals, and 32 reprints from Asimov's SF, Strange Horizons, The Pedestal Magazine, Dark Wisdom, Weird Tales, Aoife's Kiss, The Fifth Dimension. Illustrated by Marge Simon.

Extended description

2006 BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNER
Shades Fantastic is a collection of SF, horror, fantasy, surreal, and mainstream poems by SFPA Grand Master Poet Bruce Boston. It includes five originals, and 32 reprints from Asimov's SF, Strange Horizons, The Pedestal Magazine, Dark Wisdom, Weird Tales, Aoife's Kiss, The Fifth Dimension, and other leading genre and literary publications. Illustrated by Marge Simon.

"Remembrance of the future, dystopian road trips, a touch of Dali, and so much more. Our premier sci-fi-poet-sorcerer conjures up the miraculous once again." -- G. O. Clark, author of Bone Sprockets

"A damned, fine gathering. Weighty. As you peer into its facets, where the torched ruins of memory flicker with a dark fire, nearly every poem seems to be the central work. Boston exhibits a stoned blind love of the fantastic." -- Robert Frazier, author of The Daily Chernobyl

Bruce Boston is the author of fifty books and chapbooks, including the novels The Guardener's Tale and Stained Glass R.. (Read more) 2006 BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNER
Shades Fantastic is a collection of SF, horror, fantasy, surreal, and mainstream poems by SFPA Grand Master Poet Bruce Boston. It includes five originals, and 32 reprints from Asimov's SF, Strange Horizons, The Pedestal Magazine, Dark Wisdom, Weird Tales, Aoife's Kiss, The Fifth Dimension, and other leading genre and literary publications. Illustrated by Marge Simon.

"Remembrance of the future, dystopian road trips, a touch of Dali, and so much more. Our premier sci-fi-poet-sorcerer conjures up the miraculous once again." -- G. O. Clark, author of Bone Sprockets

"A damned, fine gathering. Weighty. As you peer into its facets, where the torched ruins of memory flicker with a dark fire, nearly every poem seems to be the central work. Boston exhibits a stoned blind love of the fantastic." -- Robert Frazier, author of The Daily Chernobyl

Bruce Boston is the author of fifty books and chapbooks, including the novels The Guardener's Tale and Stained Glass Rain. His writing has appeared in hundreds of publications, including Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Nebula Awards Showcase. One of the leading genre poets for more than a quarter century, Boston has won the Bram Stoker Award for Poetry, the Asimov's Readers Award, and the Rhysling Award, each a record number of times. He has also received a Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Grandmaster Award of the SFPA.
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poetry, fantasy, science fiction, fantasy poetry, dark poetry, surreal, sf, speculative, surrealism, stoker award, bram stoker, sf poetry

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