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 The
Resurrection Man's Legacy and Other Stories
What people are saying:
"[Dale Bailey] is probably the finest fantasist to have entered the
genre in the 1990s . . . . he is nothing like anyone who has ever come
before and everyone who comes after will be in his penumbra."
-- from Barry Malzberg's Introduction
"The dark-touched souls of the small-town characters of 'Quinn's Way,'
'Touched' and 'The Census Taker' bring to mind the deft chill of Ray
Bradbury's early work. With his thoughtful, frequently elegiac prose,
Bailey has a knack for crisp, compelling family drama strung on a web of
fantasy."
-- Publisher's Weekly
"Bailey seems sometimes to be channeling Ray Bradbury, only on a darker
wavelength.... There are 11 stories in this book, each dense and
beautifully constructed, each deserving of a slow read."
-- The Charlotte Observer
"Most of the 11 stories in this collection were first published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and read like it. That is,
their style is quite polished, and their quality is uniformly high."
-- Booklist
"In these disturbing and poignant stories, Dale Bailey dresses memory in
meat and puts flesh on figments of imagination that the mortal run of us
let dissolve into vapor at daybreak. He is expert at assuming a
credible storytelling persona, evoking both milieu and malaise, and
tipping nightmare into narrative. This new Golden Gryphon collection
showcases Bailey performing these literary feats without evident strain
and, in many stories, all at the same time."
-- Michael Bishop, Nebula Award-Winning author of No Enemy
But Time
From the jacket:
Dale Bailey's literary fantasies have been delighting and discomfiting
readers for a decade now. The Resurrection Man's Legacy and Other
Stories, his first collection, showcases his skills at doing
both. Presently under option to 20th-Century Fox for development as a
motion picture, the Nebula-nominated title story is characteristic of
his work. Plunging us into a subtly alternate 1950s--a gentler past
that has been spared the mushroom clouds over Japan--"The Resurrection
Man's Legacy" mixes baseball lore with one of science fiction's central
metaphors, the robot, producing from these disparate sources an
unforgettable story of grief, loss, and the often-painful bonds of
family.
These are themes to which Bailey returns again and again in the tales
that follow. "Death and Suffrage," winner of an International Horror
Guild Award, depicts a nightmarish presidential contest in which a
political strategist wrestles with his own haunted past and its possible
connections with an onslaught of the newly arisen dead. "The
Anencephalic Fields" sweeps us off to post-apocalyptic Appalachia, where
a young boy on the edge of manhood is forced to choose between the
mother who raised him, the father he has never known, and the corporate
paymasters who seek to exploit the bizarre, almost-human crop his family
has been cultivating in the rich fields outside his Kentucky farmhouse.
"Sheep's Clothing" is a near-future science fiction tale of political
assassination rendered even more timely by the press of contemporary
events.
And the closing novella, "In Green's Dominion," is a gripping meditation
on love, art, and the costs of a life tempered by fear. Blending fantasy
and reality in consistently lyrical prose, Bailey's stories--whether
he's writing about a stillborn child or a lost southern town where
slavery still rears its ugly head--are uniformly memorable expeditions
into the tangled interior of the human heart.
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