Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest

The Mutant Rain Forest is nature's revenge upon man's despoliation.Robert Frazier and Bruce Boston, SFPA's first two Grandmaster Poets, created and began exploring the Mutant Rain Forest in the late 1980s with both collaborative and solo works.Since that time, stories and/or poems set in the Mutant Rain Forest have appeared in Omni, Asimov's SF Magazine, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin's), Year's Best Horror (DAW), The Rhysling Anthology, and many other publications.In the mutant rain forest it's adapt or be redacted.Their collaborative poem "Return to the Mutant Rain Forest" received first place in the 2006 Locus Poll for All-Time Favorite Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Poem. Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest collects the best stories and poems from this world: two novelettes, four short stories, two flash fictions (nearly 40,000 words of fiction), and 38 poems, including two stories and five poems appearing here for the first time.Maggot to fly. Tadpole to poison frog. Man to abomination.Includes the following short stories: Cruising Through BluelandHolos at an Exhibition of the Mutant Rain ForestThe Tale WithinA Trader on the Border of the Mutant Rain ForestGoing Green in the Mutant Rain ForestDescent into EdenAerial Reconnaissance of a Conflagration...Surrounded by the Mutant Rain ForestAnd a lot of poems!Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing - Tales from the Darkest DepthsInterview with the authors: What makes this collection so special?Bruce Boston: "Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest was written by the first two Grandmasters of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. It was more than twenty-years in the making."How did you two come up with the idea for this science fiction epic?Robert Frazier: "In the mid-eighties, Bruce asked me for a story for Berkeley Poets Cooperative. I sent him a cautionary tale of a mutated creature from the waters of the Amazon. He liked the milieu: mutation and the jungle. I had previously explored their collision in two poems for Asimov's SF and Amazing Stories, but Bruce insisted there were rich poetic possibilities still to be mined. Soon we were trading stanzas to 'Return to the Mutant Rain Forest, ' which proved to have considerable legs, and, more importantly, became the kick-start to a growing series."Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest categories: Post apocalyptic science fiction horrorScience Fiction AdventureAlien Contact Science FictionMetaphysical Horror SuspensePoetry and short story collectionDark Fantasy HorrorAlien Invasion AdventureDystopian US Horror FictionScience fiction poetryMetaphysical Science Fiction HorrorHorror Short stories

Angela Yuriko Smith

"The writing is lush and intelligent. There is much of the classic craft in these lines and I can imagine them draining from the pen of Lovecraft or Poe."

Michael Bishop, author of Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas

"...a rare and remarkable experience."

James P. Kelly, winner of the Hugo, Nebula & Locus awards.

"...remarkable feat of literary imagination."

but shouldn't."

"Dense, delicious, often delirious, needing unpacking as difficult literature often does, this is a book you might miss

chilling, to think of how the effects of pollution in the aftermath of civilization's sprawl

"An incredible book... Highly imaginative and unforgettable imagery

J. L. Comeau, Creature Feature Tomb of Horror

"Of all of the genre collaborations I can think of, none is quite so powerful as the Mutant Rain Forest imagined by celebrated poets and authors Robert Frazier and Bruce Boston. Partly science fiction, partly horror, the Mutant Rain Forest is one hundred percent stunning reportage from one of the strangest locales in all of genre literature."

David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Star*Line

"Human devolution is accompanied by every kind of evolutionary change that's possible, but magnified and accelerated beyond all possibility of humanity to deal with it, or even apprehend it. Here, we doesn't have to wait for bacteria to carry genes from a squirrel to a rat, or from maize to dandelions, one by one. Any two or more species can form chimeras, any can borrow traits and organs, capabilities and aspects, from any other. And they do. Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest is dark, as befits a book based on the (only slightly) outlandish idea that, one way or another, for our cavalier treatment of the planet there'll be hell to pay."

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