Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best of the Year
In her new collection, Story Prize finalist Maureen F. McHugh delves
into the dark heart of contemporary life and life five minutes from now
and how easy it is to mix up one with the other. Her stories are
post-bird flu, in the middle of medical trials, wondering if our
computers are smarter than us, wondering when our jobs are going to be
outsourced overseas, wondering if we are who we say we are, and not sure
what we'd do to survive the coming zombie plague.
Praise for Maureen F. McHugh:
Gorgeously crafted stories.--Nancy Pearl, NPR
Hauntingly beautiful.--Booklist
Unpredictable and poetic work.--The Plain Dealer
Maureen F. McHugh has lived in New York; Shijiazhuang, China; Ohio;
Austin, Texas; and now lives in Los Angeles, California. She is the
author of a Story Prize finalist collection, Mothers & Other Monsters,
and four novels, including Tiptree Award-winner China Mountain Zhang
and New York Times editor's choice Nekropolis. McHugh has also
worked on alternate reality games for Halo 2, The Watchmen, and Nine
Inch Nails, among others.
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