Resnick's Menagerie

by Mike Resnick, Borislav Varadinov (Illustrator), Will Jacques (Illustrator), Leonid Korogodski (Designed by), Kij Johnson (Introduction)

Overview

Resnick's Menagerie is a collection of previously published short fiction by Mike Resnick, all of which involve animals, whether real or imaginary: from dogs to werewolves, and from elephants to dragons. The collection includes eighteen stories; of them, one winner of the Hugo Award, four nominees for the Hugo Award, one nominee for the Nebula Award, and two winners of the American Dog Writers Award for Best Short Story, in different years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984360888
Publisher:	Silverberry Press
Publication date:	09/02/2012
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mike Resnick is the winner of five Hugo Awards (from a record thirty-five nominations), a Nebula Award, and numerous other major awards in the United States, France, Poland, Spain, Croatia, and Japan. According to Locus magazine, he is the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short fiction. He is the author of 68 novels, over 250 stories, and 2 screenplays, and the editor of more than 40 anthologies. He has served stints as the science fiction consultant for BenBella Books and the co-editor of Jim Baen's Universe, and is currently editing the Stellar Guild line of books for Arc Manor. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages, and he has been named Guest of Honor for the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention.

Editorial Reviews

This occasionally uneven collection from Hugo-winner Resnick reprints a number of stories centered on one of his favorite recurring themes. He nicely captures the sentimental side of animal stories, whether in the classic postapocalyptic “The Last Dog” or nongenre weeper “Blue”; the best of these is “Barnaby in Exile,” a tale of animal experimentation that nicely updates “Flowers for Algernon.” Inexplicably (and excessively) down-home narrators slightly undercut otherwise solid stories like the safari-in-space “Hunting the Snark” or the Malthusian “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” The outright comic tales blur together, with the hard-boiled “Post Time in Pink” being one of the few standouts. Old-school “A Better Mousetrap” is probably the cream of the humorous crop, but “Stalking the Vampire” (from the novel of the same name) seems particularly out of place, given the sentience of the title characters and its redundancy after the much better “Stalking the Unicorn with Gun and Camera.” Still, Resnick fans are likely to enjoy the infrequently reprinted tales and informative author notes. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly