Fruiting Bodies Stories

Author : Kathryn Harlan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324021233
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fruiting Bodies: Stories written by Kathryn Harlan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction One of Vulture's Best Books of the Year This genre-bending debut collection of stories constructs eight eerie worlds full of desire, wisdom, and magic blooming amidst decay. In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters—mostly queer, mostly women—on the precipice of change. Echoes of timeless myth and folklore reverberate through urgent narratives of discovery, appetite, and coming-of-age in a time of crisis. In “The Changeling,” two young cousins wait in dread for a new family member to arrive, convinced that he may be a dangerous supernatural creature. In “Endangered Animals,” Jane prepares to say goodbye to her almost-love while they road-trip across a country irrevocably altered by climate change. In “Take Only What Belongs to You,” a queer woman struggles with the personal history of an author she idolized, while in “Fiddler, Fool, Pair,” an anthropologist is drawn into a magical—and dangerous—gamble. In the title story, partners Agnes and Geb feast peacefully on the mushrooms that sprout from Agnes’s body—until an unwanted male guest disturbs their cloistered home. Audacious, striking, and wholly original, Fruiting Bodies offers stories about knowledge in a world on the verge of collapse, knowledge that alternately empowers or devastates. Pulling beautifully, brazenly, from a variety of literary traditions, Kathryn Harlan firmly establishes herself as a thrilling new voice in fiction.

Author : Brian Lumley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466818697
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi written by Brian Lumley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi is a collection of 13 short stories by master of horror Brian Lumley. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250835410
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fruiting Bodies written by Kemi Ashing-Giwa and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kemi Ashing-Giwa's stunning post-apocalyptic short story, "Fruiting Bodies", a Tor.com Original, an alien fungal infection has ravaged a faraway planet, turning all but six of the colonists into ravenous alarinkiri. Inyama, a mycologist, is her species’ last hope. But it’s not expertise her fellow survivors want from her. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Seth M. Holmes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520954793
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies written by Seth M. Holmes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants and indigenous people in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and healthcare. Holmes’s material is visceral and powerful. He trekked with his companions illegally through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them before they were deported. He lived with indigenous families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labor camps in the U.S., planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, and accompanied sick workers to clinics and hospitals. This “embodied anthropology” deepens our theoretical understanding of how health equity is undermined by a normalization of migrant suffering, the natural endpoint of systemic dehumanization, exploitation, and oppression that clouds any sense of empathy for “invisible workers.” Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is far more than an ethnography or supplementary labor studies text; Holmes tells the stories of food production workers from as close to the ground as possible, revealing often theoretically-discussed social inequalities as irreparable bodily damage done. This book substantiates the suffering of those facing the danger of crossing the border, threatened with deportation, or otherwise caught up in the structural violence of a system promising work but endangering or ignoring the human rights and health of its workers. All of the book award money and royalties from the sales of this book have been donated to farm worker unions, farm worker organizations and farm worker projects in consultation with farm workers who appear in the book.

Author : Isaac Marion
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147671746X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warm Bodies written by Isaac Marion and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alienated from his fellow zombies because of his dislike of having to kill humans and his enjoyment of Sinatra music, "R" meets a living girl who sharply contrasts with his cold and dreary world and whom he resolves to protect in spite of her delicious appearance.

Author : Merlin Sheldrake
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525510338
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entangled Life written by Merlin Sheldrake and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems. “Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Time, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In the first edition of this mind-bending book, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This exquisitely designed volume, abridged from the original, features more than one hundred full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness, and beauty of fungi to life as never before. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works. Winner of the Wainwright Prize, the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and the Guild of Food Writers Award • Shortlisted for the British Book Award • Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize

Author : Lee Lai
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1683964268
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Fruit written by Lee Lai and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seeded personal stumbling blocks. As their emotional intimacy erodes, Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their broken family ties ― Ray with her overworked, resentful single-mother sister and Bron with her religious teenage sister who doesn’t fully grasp the complexities of gender identity. Taking a leap of faith, each opens up and learns they have more in common with their siblings than they ever knew. At turns joyful and heartbreaking, Stone Fruit reveals through intimately naturalistic dialog and blue-hued watercolor how painful it can be to truly become vulnerable to your loved ones ― and how fulfilling it is to be finally understood for who you are. Lee Lai is one of the most exciting new voices to break into the comics medium and she has created one of the truly sophisticated graphic novel debuts in recent memory.

Author : Nisi Shawl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781619762244
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Fruiting Bodies written by Nisi Shawl and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Fruiting Bodies collects stories of old growth and fresh decay, of stubborn rebirth and the faint but nonimaginary paths connecting life and nonlife. From the sharp, sweet confessional of their Peter Pan-inspired "Awfully Big Adventure," through the melting ambitextualities of "Just Us"--from the early, dizzy-eyed quest at the heart of "Looking for Lilith" through the newly unfurling tendrils that pierce the grounds of "I Being Young and Foolish," Nisi Shawl's search for the power of fiction's truth puts pure, precious gifts right here, right in your hands, ripe and ready for reading.

Author : COOPER NATASHA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671855109
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fruiting Bodies P written by COOPER NATASHA and published by . This book was released on 1997-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Lumley
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Wish and Other Exhalations written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This may be The Second Wish, but it's the third witch's dozen of nerve-rending stories of the macabre from the man who gave you the internationally bestselling Necroscope and Vampire World series. Brian Lumley's The Second Wish and Other Exhalations maintains the nightmarish tradition established by his Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi and Dagon's Bell and Other Discords to complete a trilogy of terror. From Lovecraftian tales such as "The House of the Temple", "Rising With Surtsey" and the title story, to such contemporary horrors as "The Sun, the Sea, and the Silent Scream" and "The Luststone", this new collection has been culled from the writings of a true Master of Nightmares. Remember: in the field of no-holds-barred terror fiction, there's Brian Lumley – and then there's the rest… Stories included in this collection: The Second Wish The Sun, the Sea, and the Silent Scream De Marigny's Clock The Luststone Mother Love What Dark God? The Thief Immortal The House of the Temple Back Row Name and Number Snarker's Son Rising With Surtsey David's Worm