{"product_id":"the-ant-king-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"The Ant King: And Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Rosenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rosenbaum's \u003ci\u003eThe Ant King and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e contains invisible cities and playful deconstructions of the form. In \"Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, With Air-Planes, ' by Benjamin Rosenbaum\"--yes, his name is part of the title--the author imagines a world whose technologies and philosophies differ wildly from ours. The result is a commentary on the state of the art that is itself the state of the art.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Favorite Books of 2008\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* \"Give him some prizes, like, perhaps, \"best first collection\" for this book.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (Starred review, Top 10 SF Books of the Year)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Featuring outlandish and striking imagery throughout--a woman in love with an elephant, an orange that ruled the world--this collection is a surrealistic wonderland.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rosenbaum proves he's capable of sustained fantasy with \"Biographical Notes,\" a steampunkish alternate history of aerial piracy, and \"A Siege of Cranes,\" a fantasy about a battle between a human insurgent and the White Witch that carries decidedly modern undercurrents.... Perhaps none of the tales is odder than \"Orphans,\" in which girl-meets-elephant, girl-loses-elephant.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic.\"--Cory Doctorow, \u003ci\u003eBoing Boing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Lively, bizarre, and funny as well as dark, sinister, and sensual.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBoston Phoenix \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children's collective goes house hunting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Rosenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e's stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAsimov's Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, been translated into fourteen languages, and listed in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2006\u003c\/i\u003e. Shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula awards, Rosenbaum's work has been reprinted in \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Year's Best Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Switzerland with his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Rosenbaum (benjaminrosenbaum.com) grew up in Arlington, Virginia, and received degrees in computer science and religious studies from Brown University. His work has been published in Harper's, Nature, McSweeney's, F\u0026amp;SF, Asimov's, Interzone, All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, and Strange Horizons. Small Beer Press published his chapbook Other Cities. He and his family live in Switzerland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47268878713081,"sku":"9781931520539","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/IVPfu4chkW9781931520539.webp?v=1768886112","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-ant-king-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}