How They Were Found

In his debut collection How They Were Found, Matt Bell draws from a wide range of genres to create stories that are both formally innovative and imaginatively rich. In one, a 19th-century minister follows ghostly instructions to build a mechanical messiah. In another, a tyrannical army commander watches his apocalyptic command slip away as the memories of his men begin to fade and fail. Elsewhere, murders are indexed, new worlds are mapped, fairy tales are fractured and retold and then fractured again. Throughout these thirteen stories, Bell’s careful prose burrows at the foundations of his characters’ lives until they topple over, then painstakingly pores over the wreckage for what rubbled humanity might yet remain to be found. Contains the story “Dredge,” selected for Best American Mystery Stories 2010. Review “Body toll notwithstanding, How They Were Found is anything but bleak. For one thing, there’s the prose: generous, urgent, rhythmic.” —The Beli...

Author: Bell Matt

ISBN: 9780982151259

Year of publication: 2011

Genre: Science fiction

Number of pages: 179

Reading time: 2 h. 59 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

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