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    Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories
    Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories
    Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories
    Audiobook6 hours

    Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories

    Written by Abbey Mei Otis

    Narrated by Nicole Poole and Eric Jason Martin

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    Philip K. Dick Award finalist

    Washington Post Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018

    Abbey Mei Otis's short stories are contemporary fiction at its strongest: taking apart the supposed equality that is clearly just not there, putting humans under an alien microscope, putting humans under government control, putting kids from the moon into a small beach town and then the putting the rest of the town under the microscope as they react in ways we hope they would, and then, of course, in ways we'd hope they don't. Otis has long been fascinated in using strange situations to explore dynamics of power, oppression, and grief, and the twelve stories collected here are at once a striking indictment of the present and a powerful warning about the future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateApr 2, 2019
    ISBN9781684570171
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    Abbey Mei Otis

    Abbey Mei Otis is an American writer born in 1989.  She is currently a student in the creative writing program at Oberlin College, as well as a graduate of Clarion West 2010.  Her work has previously appeared in Strange Horizons and The Susquehanna Review.

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      This is a wonderful selection of stories from an author that is new to me. The stories range from sort of a magical surrealism (similar to the stories of Kelly Link), to more straightforward science fiction. I enjoyed both modes of writing, but the science fiction is grounded in the world as it is now: children born and raised on the moon struggle to make lives on an earth that doesn't want them; a sex robot falls from the sky and is found by a group of kids; aliens pay to watch a couple kids to fight. The characters are recognizable and sympathetic, even when their motivations are unknown, even to themselves. My favorite of the stories is the last one, "Ultimate Housekeeping Megathrill 4," in which a mother in a dystopian world retreats into a video game version of her life to try to cope with the chaos that is going on around her. Her addiction, and the frustration and desperation of her family as they try to get her to respond to her, read as very real to me, in spite of the science fiction milieu. I look forward to reading what this author writes in the future.