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Friends of Apis Radio: Fabulist Fiction Tales
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 21 2020
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Twelve paranormal tales of monstrous honeybees, murderous ghost girls, squid computer geeks, killer klowns, and hungry teenage aliens. In a writing style rich in aerial movement and numinous trickster guides, this short story collection from Paranoia Magazine's Joan d'Arc squeezes you between the elevator doors and yells, Going up! Friends of Apis Radio is a work of magical realism, macabre humor, and supernatural horror.
Reviews
You may not be prepared for the repeated whomps upside the head assembled in this striking collection. Completely unpredictable shifts and turns, sudden confrontations with ever-changing new realities provide repeated mind-warps. d'Arc's charged, rapidly moving prose has a dreamlike fluidity, but these dreams have been fully enlivened by an extravagant CGI mistress.
The author is fully at ease and conversant with her worlds, and this assured touch translates to the reader. She is also adept at changing styles to suit individual stories, which is a considerable skill. If you are looking for something that is genuinely original and, at times, mind bending, then you will find plenty to enjoy in this book.
An imaginative and diverse collection of short tales. Some were quite relevant to topics of the times, others bizarrely strange with a humorous edge, or tantalizingly reminiscent but with a twist, and also some that are quite creepy.
What stands out about this volume is the satirical edge and macabre humor. One of my faves, The Mainsplain, is about two squids who live in some ocean somewhere, and who peer into their Mainsplain and Pocketsplain offering a hilarious running roast of Earth's horrific history.
Who is Joan d'Arc?
Joan d'Arc's fabulist fiction has appeared in Danse Macabre, The Wedding Cake House Anthology and Huntergatheress Journal. Her speculative fiction follows decades of writings on supernatural, occult, UFO and Forteana subjects, dozens of which were published in such collections as Paranoia, UFO Magazine, Namaste (UK), Secret and Suppressed II, The Universal Seduction, Wake Up Down There!, UFO Digest LaGazette Forteenne (in French) and Hellraiser Homemaker, the Gonzo Domestic Survival Guide.
She is the past publisher of Paranoia Magazine (1992-2012), Newspeak Katazine (1995-1997) and HunterGatheress Journal (Vol. 1, 2008, Vol. 2, 2009), published in Providence, Rhode Island. She is the author of Space Travelers and the Genesis of the Human Form, and Phenomenal World, both published by The Book Tree, and Conspiracy Geek, published by Sisyphus Press. She is the co-editor of The Conspiracy Reader and The New Conspiracy Reader, translated into Japanese and Romanian.
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