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Hand & Langan & BAF2 [Oct. 25th, 2008|03:43 pm]
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Terrence Rafferty, writing for the New York Times Book Review this weekend, gives a mention to both Liz Hand (Generation Loss) and Sarah Langan (The Missing) in his review/article, "Shelley's Daughters," about contemporary women writers working in the Horror genre. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/books/review/Rafferty-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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The eclectic second installment of Prime's annual anthology draws equally from venerable genre magazines like Weird Tales and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and more literary publications like McSweeney's and The Cincinnati Review. Standout stories include M. Rickert's “Memoir of a Deer Woman,” a heartrending tale about a loving husband who must somehow come to grips with his wife's metamorphosis into a deer, and “The Drowned Life” by Jeffrey Ford, an allegorical look at the looming economic crisis through the eyes of a disenchanted HMO employee. Fantasy fans will also enjoy Deborah Coates's paranormal-nuanced “Chainsaw on Hand” and the dark lyricism of Erik Amundsen's “Bufo Rex.” Though it contains few blockbuster stories, this solidly entertaining anthology exemplifies the continuing evolution and expansion of the genre. (Dec.)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6606052.html?industryid=47159

The image “http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410Q2%2BFe0CL._SL500_AA240_.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. And here it seems all my bitching about Prime Books was for naught, because lo and behold there is a cover for John Langan's book, and not a bad one at that.  http://snurl.com/4p5lz   And also he now appears on the Prime author's page.  http://www.primebooks.net/authors/author_detail.asp?author_ID=84  My hat off to Sean Wallace.  


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