Description: Moderan by David R. Bunch, Jeff VanderMeer Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description A collection of chilling and prescient stories about ecological apocalypse, artificial intelligence, and the merging of human and machine in an effort to survive.A collection of chilling and prescient stories about ecological apocalypse and the merging of human and machine.Welcome to Moderan, world of the future. Here perpetual war is waged by furious masters fighting from Strongholds well stocked with "arsenals of fear" and everyone is enamored with hate. The devastated earth is coated by vast sheets of gray plastic, while humans vie to replace more and more of their own "soft parts" with steel. What need is there for nature when trees and flowers can be pushed up through holes in the plastic? Who requires human companionship when new-metal mistresses are waiting? But even a Stronghold master can doubt the catechism of Moderan. Wanderers, poets, and his own children pay visits, proving that another world is possible."As if Whitman and Nietzsche had collaborated," wrote Brian Aldiss of David R. Bunchs work. Originally published in science-fiction magazines in the 1960s and 70s, these mordant stories, though passionately sought by collectors, have been unavailable in a single volume for close to half a century. Like Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange, Bunch coined a mind-bending new vocabulary. He sought not to divert readers from the horror of modernity but to make us face it squarely.This volume includes eleven previously uncollected Moderan stories. Author Biography David Roosevelt Bunch (1920-2000) was born in rural western Missouri. After serving as an army corporal during World War II, he worked toward a PhD in English literature at Washington University in St. Louis and then transferred to the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he studied for two years before dropping out. He married Phyllis Flette in 1951 and they had two daughters, Phyllis and Velma. While working as a cartographer for the Defense Mapping Agency in St. Louis, he began publishing stories in sciencefiction magazines, two of which were included in Harlan Ellisons landmark 1967 sci-fi anthology, Dangerous Visions. In 1971, Bunch published Moderan, a collection of stories set on a future earth devastated by war and environmental exploitation. In 1973, he retired from cartography to pursue writing full-time. A poetry chapbook, We Have a Nervous Job, followed in 1983, and Bunch! (1993), another book of short stories, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. Bunchs last book, the poetry collection The Heartacher and the Warehouseman, came out in April 2000. He died of a heart attack the following month. In 1965 he told Amazing Stories, "Im not in this business primarily to describe or explain or entertain. Im here to make the reader think, even if I have to bash his teeth out, break his legs, grind him up, beat him down, and totally chastise him for the terrible and tinsel and almost wholly bad world we allow."Jeff Vandermeer is the author of the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) and, most recently, of the novel Borne, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke award. His nonfiction has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife, the editor Ann VanderMeer. Details ISBN 1681372541 ISBN-13 9781681372549 Title Moderan Author David R. Bunch, Jeff VanderMeer Format Paperback Year 2018 Pages 352 Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc GE_Item_ID:141762742; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! 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Book Title: Moderan
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
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Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Topic: Short Stories (Single Author), Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction / General
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Publication Year: 2018
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Author: David R. Bunch
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