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calendar of regrets
fc2, 2010
Calendar of Regrets. 12 intersecting stories. 12 historical moments. 12 styles. 12 genres. A narrative about narrativity, about how we tell ourselves & our world again and again in an attempt to make sense of it, & fail every time.
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head in flames
chiasmus, 2009
Head in Flames is a collage novel exploring two intersecting narratives about the nature of art: Vincent van Gogh's suicide in Auvers in 1890 & filmmaker Theo's murder in Amsterdam in 2004 at the hands of Mohammed Bouyeri.
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anxious pleasures
shoemaker & hoard, 2007
"A cerebral treat." —Publishers Weekly
"Highly recommended." —Library Journal
"What a wonderfully and intellectually satisfying novel this is!" —Samuel R. Delany
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nietzsche's kisses
fc2, 2006
"A brilliant book and a book of brilliances, one which follows the logic of the disintegration of a great mind with poetic grace, profound comedy, and a sense of tragic inevitability." —Michael Joyce
"[A] beautiful novel." —Steven Shaviro
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10:01
chiasmus, 2005
What goes through the heads of a few dozen people, one cat, one mouse, & several ghosts one winter midafternoon in a movie theater in the Mall of America ten minutes and one second before the feature begins.
"A fine, penetrating novel." —Alvin Greenberg
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girl imagined by chance
fc2, 2002
A critifiction about a couple who in an unguarded moment create a make-believe daughter (and a make-believe life to accompany her) in order to appease their friends, family, and the culture of reproduction.
"Smart and moving and elegant." —Shelley Jackson
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freaknest
wordcraft, 2000
"A treat for anyone interested in the place of the human will in a society that seeks at every turn to remove and commodify our memories and selves, turning us all into isolated units locked inside a building, dreaming dreams that were, and never will be, truly ours." —American Book Review
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time famine
permeable, 1996
"Relentless, savage, hysterically funny. . . . With his amped-up language and massive powers of invention, Olsen succeeds in tattooing his future on your hide." —Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's
Science Fiction Chronicle: one of the best of 1996.
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burnt
wordcraft, 1996
"A wonderfully funny, definitely unusual SF novel. . . . Witty prose, outrageous situations, a healthy sense of the absurd and genuinely entertaining writing prevail in this unique look into one of the less obvious side alleys of speculative fiction." —Don D'Ammassa, Science Fiction Chronicle
"A funny cautionary tale." —Publishers Weekly
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tonguing the zeitgeist
permeable, 1994
"Brilliant black comedy." —Booklist
"The ultimate rock'n'roll novel." —Brian Stableford, Interzone
finalist for philip k. dick award
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live from earth
available/ballantine, 1991
"This story is an outstanding portrait of human interaction on an emotional and visceral level. It is often absurd, sometimes disturbing, and wholly engrossing . . . . [An] excellent piece of contemporary fiction." —Booklist
"Radiant." —Lexington Herald-Leader
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