From the Neck Up and Other Stories

Short fiction collection from award-winning, Clarke Award, John W. Campbell, BFS, BSFA, Shirley Jackson, James Tiptree Jr and Saboteur Award nominated author, Aliya Whiteley. The new collection of humane, beautiful and disarming short stories from the award-winning Aliya Whiteley. Whiteley deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life with her trademark wit. 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. Fascinating, and unlike any other writer working today.

Autorentext

Aliya Whiteley's is the author of The Beauty, The Loosening Skin, Skein Island, From the Neck Up, The Arrival of Missives and more. Her novels and novellas have been shortlisted for multiple awards including the Arthur C Clarke award, British Fantasy award, British Science Fiction award and a Shirley Jackson award. Her short fiction has appeared in The Guardian, The Dark, Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Strange Horizons, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and anthologies such asThis Dreaming Isle, 2084 and Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction.

Klappentext

The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the awardwinning Aliya Whiteley, deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life with her trademark wit. 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. Fascinating, and unlike any other writer working today.

Zusammenfassung
The new collection of humane, beautiful and disarming short stories from the award-winning author of The Beauty, Clarke Award nominee The Loosening Skin and The Arrival of Missives