Ra Page
Autor(a) de The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease
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Beta-Life: Short Stories from an A-Life Future (Science-Into-Fiction) (2014) — Editor — 14 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1972
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (no mapa)
- England, UK
- Educação
- Balliol College, Oxford (Physics / Philosophy)
University of Manchester (English) - Organizações
- Comma Press (Founder / Editorial Manager)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Ra is the founder and Editorial Manager of Comma Press. He’s the editor of numerous anthologies, including The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories (Penguin, 1999), co-editor of The New Uncanny (winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, 2008) and Litmus, voted one of 2011’s books of the year by The Observer. Between 2004 and 2013 he was also the coordinator of Literature Northwest, a support agency for independent publishers in the region (until it formally merged with Comma). He also coordinates Comma Film, an on-going film adaptation project which regularly commissions filmmakers and animators to adapt short literary texts (poems and short stories). He is a former journalist, having been Deputy Editor for City Life magazine, and a former Director of Manchester Poetry Festival. His critical work has been published in The Journal of the Short Story in English, and he’s been a producer, co-writer and co-director on a number of short film projects. He read Physics and Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford and has an MA in English from the University of Manchester.
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- Obras
- 19
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 238
- Popularidade
- #95,270
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Críticas
- 7
- ISBN
- 23
Whether Lem would have appreciated this volume of idolatry is another matter entirely. 'Lemistry' is a love letter to one of Poland's most famous literary exports, combining fresh translations of a few of Lem's minor short stories, literary essays, and short stories that spin off from some of Lem's own. Or, in the case of a pitiable effort by Brian Aldiss, who should have known better, simply some short stories that had not been published elsewhere.
The great problem here is the most obvious one: if Lem was so great, what chance his tribute band? None of the stories in this collection is particularly memorable, and some, such as the aforementioned Aldiss mess, are forgettable in the most active sense.
So, do I regret that my Kindle career got off to such an inauspicious start? Not at all. Despite the relatively low quality of the writing on offer here (and by that I am being harsh, most certainly, but readers of this volume will most likely have an idea of what Lem's writing was like, and will thus judge just as harshly themselves), it was fun to contemplate Lem's work, and there were pleasurable moments to savour, such as the journalist who travelled to meet Philip K. Dick and then took it upon himself to prove the existence of Lem. It's a shame there weren't more such moments, but you take what you can get these days.… (mais)