An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories

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Andy Duncan is one of the very best short story writers in Science Fiction, Fantasy, or anywhere else. It's a sure bet that you're holding in your hand the best story collection of the year. --Jeffrey Ford, author of A Natural History of Hell
Duncan's unique voice shines through in his third collection. You've not read him yet? Shame on you! Go out now and buy An Agent of Utopia. You'll thank me. --Ellen Datlow, award- winning editor
Andy Duncan is one of the most hilarious and poignant writers of short stories that we have. He effortlessly forges dreamlike and nightmarish tales with wit and wisdom that rivals Mark Twain. --Christopher Barzak, author of Wonders of the Invisible World
In these tales you will meet a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a haunted Mohawk steelworker, a time- traveling prizefighter, a yam- eating Zombie, and a child who loves a frizzled chicken--not to mention Harry Houdini, Zora Neale Hurston, Sir Thomas More, and all their fellow travelers riding the steamer- trunk imagination of a unique twenty-first- century fabulist.
Andy Duncan's short fiction has been honored with the Nebula, Sturgeon, and multiple World Fantasy awards. A native of Batesburg, SC, Duncan has been a newspaper reporter, a trucking- magazine editor, a bookseller, a student-media adviser, and, since 2008, a member of the writing faculty at Frostburg State University in the mountains of western Maryland, where he lives with his wife, Sydney.

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Andy Duncan is one of the very best short story writers in Science Fiction, Fantasy, or anywhere else. It's a sure bet that you're holding in your hand the best story collection of the year. --Jeffrey Ford, author of A Natural History of Hell

Duncan's unique voice shines through in his third collection. You've not read him yet? Shame on you! Go out now and buy An Agent of Utopia. You'll thank me. --Ellen Datlow, award- winning editor

Andy Duncan is one of the most hilarious and poignant writers of short stories that we have. He effortlessly forges dreamlike and nightmarish tales with wit and wisdom that rivals Mark Twain. --Christopher Barzak, author of Wonders of the Invisible World

In these tales you will meet a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a haunted Mohawk steelworker, a time- traveling prizefighter, a yam- eating Zombie, and a child who loves a frizzled chicken--not to mention Harry Houdini, Zora Neale Hurston, Sir Thomas More, and all their fellow travelers riding the steamer- trunk imagination of a unique twenty-first- century fabulist.

Andy Duncan's short fiction has been honored with the Nebula, Sturgeon, and multiple World Fantasy awards. A native of Batesburg, SC, Duncan has been a newspaper reporter, a trucking- magazine editor, a bookseller, a student-media adviser, and, since 2008, a member of the writing faculty at Frostburg State University in the mountains of western Maryland, where he lives with his wife, Sydney.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 06 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 161873153X
ISBN 13: 9781618731531

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An Agent of Utopia is all the proof you'll need to see that Andy Duncan is one of the very best short story writers in Science Fiction, Fantasy, or anywhere else. It's a sure bet that you're holding in your hand the best story collection of the year. -- Jeffrey Ford, author of A Natural History of Hell Duncan will get you to bust a a gut laughing. He'll make you teary, and put a shiver up your spine. But most importantly, his stories ask questions you might not know how to answer, and leave you looking inside yourself long after you've read the last line of his singing prose. -- Lara Elena Donnelly, author of Amberlough Andy Duncan's unique voice shines through in his third collection. You've not read him yet? Shame on you! Go out now and buy An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories. You'll thank me. -- Ellen Datlow, award-winning editor. 'Andy Duncan is one of the most hilarious and poignant writers of short stories that we have. He effortlessly forges dreamlike and nightmarish tales with wit and wisdom that rivals Mark Twain. -- Christopher Barzak, author of Wonders of the Invisible World Andy Duncan is the Andy Duncan of Andy Duncanland, and we are all lucky to have access to that fabled locale via the portal between his brain and these pages. The stories in this collection drip with magic and mayhem and time and place and personhood, along with the most creative cussing this side of anywhere. Each one is a microcosm, a moment from our own history, real or imagined, passed along to us by a master storyteller. -- Sarah Pinsker Andy Duncan is the best storyteller of our generation. Every page is breathtaking, down-to-earth magical. -- Ellen Klages Andy Duncan's work bursts on the tongue. Every word is a rhythm, perfectly shaped to thrum in the throat, to twang in the mouth, to dance on beats of breath. His dialogue drums savory dialects. His prose is a brass instrument, trumpeting stories like songs. Like blues, like jazz, his stories are written to an American tempo, her checkered history, her bright syncopation, her cacophony of real Indians and Southern storytellers and conjuring women. He is a musician, magician, mythmaker, a raconteur of marvels. -- Rachel Swirsky

Author Bio

Andy Duncan's short fiction has been honored with a Nebula Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and three World Fantasy Awards. A native of Batesburg, S.C., Duncan has been a newspaper reporter, a trucking-magazine editor, a bookseller, a student-media adviser and, since 2008, a member of the writing faculty at Frostburg State University in the mountains of western Maryland, where he lives with his wife, Sydney.