In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World
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"Powerful and interesting" short fiction inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, by Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, and other award winners (Publishers Weekly).
How do we continue to dream, imagine, and create in the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy? This moving collection of nearly twenty works of speculative fiction, responding to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, particularly the destruction of New York's World Trade Center, draws on talents in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction to confront and grieve, rebuild and survive, rise above and carry on—even in the face of shock and overwhelming emotion.
Reflecting on both individual experiences of the catastrophe and large-scale themes such as politics and morality, a variety of award-winning and bestselling authors, from Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation) and Cory Doctorow (Little Brother) to Susan Palwick (Flying in Place) and James Morrow (Towing Jehovah), contribute thoughtful tales about how we respond to fear and loss, both in the moment and over the course of time. Like artists before them who sought to write in response to the Holocaust, the Civil War, and other world-changing historical events, they use the remarkable tool of human imagination to provide a way to process the unimaginable.
How do we continue to dream, imagine, and create in the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy? This moving collection of nearly twenty works of speculative fiction, responding to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, particularly the destruction of New York's World Trade Center, draws on talents in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction to confront and grieve, rebuild and survive, rise above and carry on—even in the face of shock and overwhelming emotion.
Reflecting on both individual experiences of the catastrophe and large-scale themes such as politics and morality, a variety of award-winning and bestselling authors, from Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation) and Cory Doctorow (Little Brother) to Susan Palwick (Flying in Place) and James Morrow (Towing Jehovah), contribute thoughtful tales about how we respond to fear and loss, both in the moment and over the course of time. Like artists before them who sought to write in response to the Holocaust, the Civil War, and other world-changing historical events, they use the remarkable tool of human imagination to provide a way to process the unimaginable.
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Reflecting on both individual experiences of the catastrophe and large-scale themes such as politics and morality, a variety of award-winning and bestselling authors, from Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation) and Cory Doctorow (Little Brother) to Susan Palwick (Flying in Place) and James Morrow (Towing Jehovah), contribute thoughtful tales about how we respond to fear and loss, both in the moment and over the course of time. Like artists before them who sought to write in response to the Holocaust, the Civil War, and other world-changing historical events, they use the remarkable tool of human imagination to provide a way to process the unimaginable. - reviews
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In this emotionally charged anthology of 18 stories and novel excerpts inspired by the 9/11 terror attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, the smoldering rubble of ground zero suffuses the landscape like an unreal movie special effect. In James Morrow’s “Apologue,” written in 2001, cinema monsters apologize for the actual monsters. Ghosts both historic and contemporary roam the streets, allowed access because, as Richard Bowes observes, “There’s a Hole in the City.” In a curious inversion, it is the dead who plead for forgiveness in Susan Palwick’s “Beautiful Stuff,” a meditation on life’s simple pleasures, while Tim Marquitz describes how the living seek “Retribution.” The tragedy echoes across universes, affecting multiple versions of George W. Bush in Jeff VanderMeer’s “The Goat Variations” and fictitious radio reporter Sylvia Aloli covering the commemorations of a Celtic attack on Egypt in K. Tempest Bradford’s “Until Forgiveness Comes.” What echo loudest are the changes of post-9/11 life, chillingly drawn in the excerpt from Cory Doctorow’s 2008 update of Orwell, Little Brother. A few selections involve the attack only tangentially, somewhat undermining the theme, but this is still a powerful and interesting anthology of immediate reactions, later analyses, and lingering memories.
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