All Your Friends are Here
Published on 5. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
194 pages
978-1-959790-19-8 (ISBN)
Description
"Explores the unnerving and grotesque with glee. Shaw's loose, easy style suits the stories like a glove. Fans of new weird horror will want to check this out."Publishers Weekly
"Unforgettable, ominous, and provocative. Shaw is a voice to watch in Weird fiction."Library Journal, starred review
"Dark elegies of loneliness and dissolution set in a world left dangling at the end of history. As an enquirer into the question of what it means to be human, M. Shaw is second to none."Nadia Bulkin, She Said Destroy
Your new favourite assortment of New Weird Lit stories about car-vampires; fascist deer; memory-devouring tree gods; and the torment matrix; from Wonderland Award-winning author M.Shaw (One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve).
At last we can confirm what you've always dreamed of: All your friends are here!
Why leave your apartment ever again? All your friends are here.
Why go to outer space? All your friends are here.
Why grow, or dream? Why take that vacation you've been saving up for? Why set yourself free?
All your friends are here.
Contains a novelette written especially for this collection, Ready Player (n+1).
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
252 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-959790-19-8 (9781959790198)
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M. Shaw (they/them) is generally understood to be a masked brigand who robs from the rich and gives to the poor in the Colorado front range. Their novella One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve received the 2022 Wonderland Book Award for novel/novella of the year. Their website is mshawesome.com and they stay away from social media because it really is just dreadfully unpleasant.