{"product_id":"9781618730138","title":"The Ant King: and Other Stories","description":"\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","brand":"Small Beer Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183079342320,"sku":"9781618730138","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781618730138_p0.jpg?v=1763855222","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781618730138","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}