Fugue Xxix

Fugue XXIX is the first full-length collection of short stories available from World Fantasy Award winning editor and author Forrest Aguirre. These marvelous tales come to you from the fringe of speculative literary fiction where innovative minds keep busy dreaming up the future's uncharted territories and mining forgotten treasures of the past. Whether exploring the stars or unearthing ancient cultures these stories will surprise and delight. In Aguirre's world anything can happen, and does, with regularity.

From Publishers Weekly

With imaginative vigor, Aguirre explores the fluctuating boundaries that separate human from inhuman, terrestrial from extraterrestrial, and natural from supernatural in the 29 fantasies in his debut story collection. In "The Butterfly Artist," a zoological illustrator discovers there's more to life than he had imagined when he visits a postapocalyptic landscape where beautiful and dangerous new species flourish. "The Universal Language of Silence" juxtaposes acting with real life in its eerie account of an insular society of mimes who rigorously enforce a code of silence on its members. Most of the selections are brief, plotless sketches built from surreal images that resist literal interpretation. At their best, they offer arresting and provocative perspectives that make the ordinary uncommon and the bizarre plausible. Aguirre won a World Fantasy Award for editing the anthology Leviathan Three (2003) and readers who enjoyed that book's genre-bending content will find much to their satisfaction. (Dec.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

About the Author

Forrest Aguirre recently received the World Fantasy Award for his editorial work on the Leviathan 3 and which also made him a finalist for the Phillip K. Dick Award. His own fiction has appeared in a wide variety of publications. His most recent projects include editing Leviathan 4 and finishing work on his first novel, tentatively entitled Swans Over the Moon. Forrest lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife and four children.

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