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The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche is a short story and essay collection by Peter S. Beagle, reknowned author of The Last Unicorn.
"Werewolves, unicorns, the dreadful specter of death at a ball - you may think you've read these stories before. Peter S. Beagle demonstrates most eloquently that unless you've read his versions, you haven't read these stories at all. Everything Beagle touches he makes new. Every sentence he shapes encapsulates a song. This is both a delightful and moving collection."
-Michael Bishop
"Peter S. Beagle is a great American fantasist . . . . A book collecting short stories from throughout his career is a must-read for me and anyone interested in the art of storytelling."
-Ellen Datlow
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Professor Vlad Smith is on a terrifying quest, one that will take him from the halls
of our most hallowed institutions to the most run-down of old houses in blighted neighborhoods. A mysterious committee, shredded yellow newspapers, a daguerrotype of a Confederate soldier, a headless corpse and a corpseless head . . . These are the clues which Smith must piece together to save his sanity and his daughter, and uncover the terrible secret of
the Boss in the Wall.
"What a scary story, like a modern Dracula but completely original in its concept
and chillingly realistic in its narration. Avram Davidson was one of the finest
writers the fantasy field has had, endlessly inventive and uniquely vivid.
Grania Davis has completed this work, which he left unfinished,
in a way that does him proud."
- Poul Anderson
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The supernatural love story of a depression era artist and a young girl slipping through time, Portrait of Jennie is a spellbinding classic from 1940 is a masterpiece of modern fantasy.
"Welcome back, Portrait of Jennie.
It touched and frightened me when I was twenty-four.
Now, once more, it touches and frightens.
- Ray Bradbury
"I first read Robert Nathan's Portrait of Jennie as impressionable young man of sixteen or seventeen. It appealed to the na•ve romantic in me.
Reading it thirty-five years later, I note the clean simplicity of its prose,
its economical evocations of character and setting, and its unflamboyant wisdom:
'Yesterday is just as true as today; only we forget.'
Portrait of Jennie reminds us of that truth again.
An almost perfect little book.
- Michael Bishop
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The Postmodern Archipelago collects two essays by author Michael Swanwick. The publication of "A User's Guide to the Post Moderns" sent angry shockwaves rippling through the science fiction community. Not since the controversy surrounding the advent of the so-called New Wave writers of the 1960s and 1970s had anyone dared to categorize writers. A work that was originally intended as an homage, to illuminate the works of many of the younger writers in the field, was vilified in numerous fanzine articles and convention panels. But Swanwick's essay was not intended to generate controversy and it remains, beyond the initial conflagration, a thoughtful and insightful look into the science fiction field of the early to mid-1980s. "A User's Guide to the Post Moderns" is published here for the first time since its initial magazine appearance along with "In the Tradition. . .", an elegant essay on the fantasy genre.
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