Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature
    Unavailable
    Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature
    Unavailable
    Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature
    Ebook509 pages8 hours

    Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature

    By W. P. Kinsella, Jim Shepard and Steven Millhauser

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    The invasion of the future has begun.

    Literary legends including Steven Millhauser, Junot Diáz, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the borders of the every day. Like time traveling mad-scientists, they have concocted outrageous creations from the future. They have seized upon tales of technology gone wrong and mandated that pulp fiction must finally grow up.

    In these wildly-speculative stories you will discover the company that controls the world from an alley in Greenwich Village. You'll find nanotechnology that returns memories to the residents of a nursing home. You'll rally an avian-like alien to become a mascot for a Major League Baseball team.

    The Invaders are here. But did science fiction colonize them first?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTachyon Publications
    Release dateJun 20, 2016
    ISBN9781616962258
    Unavailable
    Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature
    Author

    W. P. Kinsella

    William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC (born May 25, 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His work has often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues.

    Read more from W. P. Kinsella

    Related to Invaders

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Boss Encounter

      Dec 30, 2021

      Boss Encounter
      19 min read

    • Article

      Movie Novels Are Still Around, And They Aren't All Trash — Just Ask The Chicagoans Who Wrote Them

      Apr 1, 2020

      CHICAGO - Recently, during C2E2 at McCormick Place, the Random House imprint Del Rey, which publishes Lucasfilm-licensed "Star Wars" books, made an unusual choice and offered the novelization of "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" three weeks early. A

      9 min read

    • Article

      Pop Art

      Jun 25, 2021

      Pop Art
      8 min read

    • Article

      Paul Tremblay

      Jun 17, 2020

      IT’S ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY BIGGEST FEARS that I would live to see the end of everything,” says Paul Tremblay, speaking to SFX from his Massachusetts home in the middle of lockdown. It’s a singularly peculiar time, and a peculiar interview for him to

      3 min read

    • Article

      Winter’s Orbit

      Jan 27, 2021

      RELEASED 4 FEBRUARY 434 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Everina Maxwell Publisher Orbit Whodunnit, conspiracy thriller, space opera and queer love story, Winter’s Orbit is one of those rare beasts in science fiction: a story truly propelled by the cha

      1 min read

    • Article

      This Is How You Lose The Time War

      Jul 17, 2019

      RELEASED OUT NOW! 208 pages | Paperback/ebook Authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Publisher Jo Fletcher Books A temporal conflict is a boggling concept, scarcely comprehensible to our puny human minds. Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone have a goo

      1 min read

    • Article

      Leading Lights Of Horror

      Jun 4, 2020

      The Horror Writers Association (HWA) 2019 Bram Stoker Awards for ‘superior achievements’ in the genre have been awarded as follows: Superior Achievement in a Novel, Coyote Rage, Owl Goingback; First Novel, The Bone Weaver’s Orchard, Sarah Read; Young

      1 min read

    • Article

      WIL WHEATON on Stand By Me

      Nov 18, 2022

      WIL WHEATON on Stand By Me
      5 min read

    • Article

      Hail, Satan

      Apr 1, 2022

      Hail, Satan
      2 min read

    • Article

      'The Dispatcher' Is A Short Stroll In A Strange Neighborhood

      May 31, 2017

      John Scalzi's new novel — originally an audio book — imagines the implications of a world where 999 out of 1,000 murder victims pop back into existence, naked, confused and safe in their own beds.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Free as Aira

      Sep 1, 2017

      Free as Aira
      5 min read

    • Article

      Space Oddity

      Feb 1, 2024

      Space Oddity
      2 min read

    • Article

      Afterlife

      Sep 15, 2023

      Afterlife
      10 min read

    • Article

      Martian wants Drabbles

      Jul 7, 2022

      Martian is a zine for SF drabbles and the team publish new ones twice a week. Drabbles are very short stories of exactly 100 words (excluding title) and they are tricky to write. Read what’s published here to see how other writers do it. The editoria

      1 min read

    • Article

      Table Talk

      Dec 1, 2021

      Table Talk
      7 min read

    • Article

      Flux Gourmet

      Mar 28, 2022

      Flux Gourmet
      5 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Winslow, Kois, Tóibín, and More

      Jan 17, 2023

      Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new release titles from De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Dan Kois, Colm Tóibín, and more—that are publishing this week. Want to learn more about upcoming titles? Then go read our most recent book preview. Want to he

      7 min read

    • Article

      One Page

      Aug 18, 2021

      “Like many of the ghost stories I’ve grown up with, this one needs to start with a death.” Seeing Ghosts (Grand Central Publishing, August 2021) by Kat Chow. First book, memoir. Agent: Jin Auh. Editor: Maddie Caldwell. Publicists: Matthew Ballast and

      2 min read

    • Article

      Joseph Cassara Wants His Characters to Break Your Heart

      Feb 1, 2018

      The Puerto Rican drag queen is a recognizable personification of New York in the 1980s, the neighbor (and opposite) of the white, Gordon Gekko-style master of the universe with his slicked-back hair. In The House of Impossible Beauties, debut novelis

      12 min read

    • Article

      Bravo, Richie

      Mar 28, 2022

      Bravo, Richie
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Kaleshion

      Sep 1, 2020

      The Kaleshion
      8 min read

    Reviews for Invaders

    4/5

    4 ratings3 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      This anthology had quite an interesting and promising premise for someone like me who enjoys both genre and literary fiction: fantasy/science fiction/horror/weird stories written by authors who are considered literary authors and are not usually associated with speculative genres. And although among the 22 stories there were four or five that I found quite weak, I did enjoy more than half of the stories, and I loved one of them: the fascinating and beautiful “A Precursor of the Cinema”, by Steven Millhauser. Not bad at all.So, although it may have some misses, I think this anthology may appeal to speculative fiction fans and literary fiction fans alike.
    • 4/5
      This is the book I've been waiting for. While I have long been attracted to science fiction for the ideas of the authors, in so many instances the ideas and plotting come at the expense of "lazy" writing, i.e. where little time has been spent creating a mood or an atmosphere, a character who has no more purpose than to keep the action going, let alone crafting a sentence that "sings." Often after having finished a sci-fi novel I have admired I have thought, "Too bad the author couldn't have teamed up with someone with a more literary sensibility. The one could contribute the ideas, while the other could paint those ideas into masterly prose."

      A few authors have been able to commonly do both (interestingly, those that immediately come to mind are all women--Margaret Atwood, Ursula LeGuin, James Tiptree, Jr/Alice Sheldon). But in "Invaders" we have a collection of stories from "literary" writers not normally known for science fiction taking a shot at a one or another sci-fi trope, e.g. an alien encounter, a post-apocalyptic world, a society where the lines between the technological and human have become blurred.

      The difference between these stories and most other science fiction stories is apparent. Much is packed into a plot of the conventional sci-fi story. The reader is propelled along by an impulse to know "What happens next?" If one were to sketch out what happens in the stories collected in "Invaders," one who find the lines to be very simple. For instance, Molly Gloss' contribution is of a shepherd who discovers an alien who has been regularly visiting the backcountry where she tends her herd. Nothing much happens between them. But that's not from whence pleasure in reading the story comes. It comes, rather, in the whole pastorally elegiac tone in which she enwraps the encounter. Likewise, Katherine Dunn writes of a lonely woman who has invested in robots to serve as her sexual companions. But her story ultimately becomes a meditation on the complications of intimacy--bringing a different sensibility to the premise than, say, a Robert Heinlein would bring to it.

      For the most part, the stories contained in "Invaders" are all satisfying, although I felt W.P. Kinsella's story of a professional sports mascot who was actually an alien NOT in disguise felt more like a throwaway, and Amiri Baraka's contribution ended so abruptly I honestly thought the book was missing a couple of pages. I'd gladly recommend this book to others, especially those who ordinarily shun science fiction as not worth their time.
    • 4/5
      You know when lit fic writers try their hand at genre, although of course their story appears in a lit fic venue not a genre one, and everyone goes on how astonishlingly inventive it is but genre fans just shake their heads sadly because they’ve seen it all before… Well, if that ever happened, and I suspect it hasn’t done for a number of decades, there’s enough proof in Invaders to demonstrate that science fiction and fantasy are now so prevalent that an author doesn’t need to be steeped in genre from the age of thirteen in order to write good genre. Which is not say every story in Invaders works, either as lit fic or as genre fic. But the anthology sets out to prove a point, and it does that pretty well. I read the book to review for Interzone.