The Collected Short Stories and Novellas (1-2) of Ian R MacLeod by Ian R MacLeod (May 2019)
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Overview: Ian R. MacLeod is the winner of the Asimov Readers Award as well as the World Fantasy Award for his short story "The Chop Girl." His novella-length version of "The Summer Isles" also won the World Fantasy Award. He is the author of The Great Wheel and Voyages by Starlight, a collection of short stories.
Genre: Fiction, Speculative Fiction
Everywhere (The Collected Short Stories and Novellas of Ian R. MacLeod 01): Welcome to the first half of the collected worlds of one of fiction’s great myth-makers.
Blending naturalistic settings with real — and unreal — histories, dark presents, strange pasts, and star-flung futures, Ian R. MacLeod’s multi-award-winning stories defy easy classification but are always vividly elegant, compelling, and filled with wonder.
In Grownups, a young boy discovers the strange facts of life in a very different — yet also alarmingly recognizable — world, whilst New Light on the Drake Equation focusses on one man’s quest to prove there is still a chance of intelligent life existing beyond Earth, and in Ephemera a very strange librarian has final charge of all the world’s knowledge and culture, and The Master Miller’s Tale tells of obsessive love as a bucolic past dissolves into the magics of industry, iron, and steam.
Nowhere (The Collected Short Stories and Novellas of Ian R. MacLeod 02): Welcome to the second half of the collected worlds of one of fiction’s great myth-makers.
In The Chop Girl, a young working at a World War 2 RAF bomber airbase discovers the true meaning of luck, whilst The Discovered Country projects a world in which the dead enjoy an endless afterlife whilst the merely living struggle to survive, and The Visitor from Taured twists a modern urban myth into a tale of one man’s search for a Theory Of Everything, and Snodgrass tells a very different version of the Beatles’ rise to fame.
Nothing in MacLeod’s visions is ever quite what it seems, yet they remain deeply real and involving. If you haven’t read MacLeod before, you can expect to be moved and surprised. If you have, then you need no further introduction other than to say that Nowhere — and its companion volume Everywhere, which features many of his best longer stories — represent a generous and wide-ranging summary of his work, along with many insights into the creative process provided by the fresh introductions and afterwords.
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