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Monday, June 18, 2007
Recent Reprints...
Jack has donated his story "Fairy Tale," which was a World Fantasy Award Finalist, to the anthology Balm In Gilead:
Salves From the Souk Of Imagination, edited by Clifford Meth. All proceeds from the book will benefit victims of terror
in Northern Israel via the Heart and Soul Foundation, http://www.levuneshama.org.
Jack's short story "Slow Dancing With Jesus" (written with Gardner Dozois) has been included in A Cross of Centuries:
Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ, edited by Michael Bishop.
New collaborative stories...
Jack has sold "The Art Of Memory," (with Barry N. Mazberg) to Jim Baen's Universe, and "The Transformation Of
Targ" (with Paul Brandon) to the anthology Eclipse, edited by Jonathan Strahan.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
New reviews for THE MAN WHO MELTED...
Jack's new edition (from Pyr in the US) of his classic novel THE MAN WHO MELTED has been garnering rave reviews.
SF Review wrote: "It's often been stated that Neuromancer laid out the template for the internet and Gibson's
work had tremendous impact on the forming of cyberspace. That's no doubt true, but no less so than that The Man Who Melted
shows us what we'll find a the end of the information superhighway, and that the real challenge isn't creating technology,
but using it to explore our humanity."
Andy Sawyer, Science Fiction Librarian at the University of Liverpool Library wrote: "One of the most unusual
sf books I've read; a metaphysical epic of great power. It's pointless to think of coparisons with other writers--in baroue
imagination think Bester, in metaphysical speculation think Dick--because Dann's vividness is all his own. The Man Who
Melted ranges from the dark energy of cyberpunk and the darker energy of French fin de siecle decadence. It's a living
lesson in what sf does so brilliantly: a frighteningly well-imagined future, a whole series of imagined ideologies, vices
and virtues, and, just as we were getting confortable, a leap beyond this to its characters' personal hearts of darkness:
obsession, sex, death, and identity."
And Paul Goat Allen, reviewing for Barnes & Noble, called The Man Who Melted "one of the genre's
most underappreciated classics."
Wizards and Dark Alchemy...
Jack's latest anthology edited with Gardner Dozois has been published by Penguin in the U.S. and Bloomsbury in Great
Britain. The US title is WIZARDS; the British title is DARK ALCHEMY. This original Young Adult collection
has stories by Garth Nix, Eoin Colfer, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Tad Williams, and others. Publishers Weekly
wrote "Veteran fantasists weave a variety of imaginative spells in this fine anthology of 18 original wizardry-themed tales...this
magical brew will enchant young adult readers and their elders as well."
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JACK DANN is a multiple award winning author who has written or edited over seventy
books, including the groundbreaking novels Junction, Starhiker, The Man Who Melted, The Memory Cathedral—which
is an international bestseller, the Civil War novel The Silent, and the recently published Bad Medicine, which
has been compared to the works of Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson and called “the best road novel since the Easy
Rider days.”
Dann’s work has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Castaneda, J. G. Ballard, Mark
Twain, and Philip K. Dick. Philip K. Dick, author of the stories from which the films Blade Runner and Total Recall
were made, wrote that “Junction is where Ursula Le Guin’s Lathe of Heaven and Tony
Boucher’s ‘The Quest for Saint Aquin’ meet...and yet it’s an entirely new novel.... I may very well
be basing some of my future work on Junction.” Best selling author Marion Zimmer Bradley called Starhiker
“a superb book...it will not give up all its delights, all its perfections, on one reading.”
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