Bøger af Kaaron Warren

Dead Souls contains twenty five stories that will only ensure the darkness without enfolds you in its cold embrace. Within these pages, you will find a man so affected by the horrors he witnessed at war, he believes another is guiding his actions; a small boy with enough malevolence to shake a young girl to her very core; a tattoo artist with a hidden agenda. You will read about a future not as bright as we might have imagined or hoped; a puppet show with a damning message; a new twist on the theory of Beethoven's Immortal Beloved; Adolf Hitler in a new guise, and something terrible that approaches us in the desert. All this, plus many, many more, tales of darkness and human suffering.

The giant metal man has stood for hundreds of years, head tilted back, mouth open. All the dead of the town are disposed of this way, carried up the long, staircase that winds around him and tipped in. At his toe emerges the Bitters, the lifeblood of the town, keeping them healthy and prosperous as the sick and needy come to buy and drink. McNubbin is a happy man with all he wants in life. He's carried the bodies up since he was 14, a worthwhile, respected job. But when he notices broken girl after broken girl, he can't stay quiet, and speaking up will change his perfect life. Shirley Jackson award-winner Kaaron Warren has lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Fiji and Canberra. She has five novels in print, including the The Grief Hole, Slights and Tide of Stone, and seven short story collections, including Cemetery Dance Selects, an eBook. She is a past Guest of Honor at Stokercon and the World Fantasy Convention.

Multi-award winning creators Ellen Datlow and Kaaron Warren teamed up on Facebook a few years ago when Ellen posted photos of antique tools and Kaaron wrote microfiction pieces to accompany them, without either of them knowing what the tools were for. This chapbook collects and preserves their playful interaction for readers to enjoy.

The Apex Book of World SF, edited by Lavie Tidhar, features award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories from Asia, Eastern Europe, and around the world.The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells a tale breathtakingly vast and varied, whether caught in the ghosts of the past or entangled in a postmodern age. Among the spirits, technology, and deep recesses of the human mind, stories abound. Kites sail to the stars, technology transcends physics, and wheels cry out in the night. Memories come and go like fading echoes and a train carries its passengers through more than simple space and time. Dark and bright, beautiful and haunting, the stories herein represent speculative fiction from a sampling of the finest authors from around the world.Table of Contents: S.P. Somtow(Thailand)-"The Bird Catcher"Jetse de Vries(Netherlands)-"Transcendence Express"Guy Hasson (Israel)-"The Levantine Experiments"Han Song (China)-"The Wheel of Samsara"Kaaron Warren (Australia/Fiji)-"Ghost Jail"Yang Ping (China)-"Wizard World"Dean Francis Alfar (Philippines)-"L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)"Nir Yaniv (Israel)-"Cinderers"Jamil Nasir (Palestine)-"The Allah Stairs"Tunku Halim (Malaysia)-"Biggest Baddest Bomoh"Aliette de Bodard (France)-"The Lost Xuyan Bride"Kristin Mandigma (Philippines)-"Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-realist Aswang"Aleksandar Ziljak (Croatia)-"An Evening In The City Coffehouse, With Lydia On My Mind"Anil Menon (India)-"Into the Night"Melanie Fazi (France, translated by Christopher Priest)-"Elegy"Zoran Zivkovic (Serbia, translated by Alice Copple-Tosic)-"Compartments""From S.P. Somtow's World Fantasy Award-winning "The Bird Catcher," a restrained horror tale of a young boy's friendship with Thailand's most infamous human "monster," to "Wizard World," Galaxy Award winner Yang Ping's story of high-tech gamers, this extraordinary anthology of 16 tales introduces English-speaking readers to some of the world's best writers of sf, horror, fantasy, and metafiction. Contributors include Jamil Nasir (Palestine), Aleksandar Ziljak (Croatia), Guy Hasson (Israel), Kaaron Warren (Australia/Fiji), and Jetse de Vries (Netherlands). VERDICT This literary window into the international world of imaginative fiction, the first in a new series, is sure to appeal to adventurous sf fans and readers of fiction in translation."-Library Journal, August 2009"The great thing about Tidhar's collection is that it is full of such masterpieces. You do have to get used to having your mind warped as if by some powerful psychedelic. You'll definitely feel that way after Zoran Zivkovic and his Godot-like explorations. Or after Guy Hassan's thought experiment about the nature of mind and thought. But once you get used to the idea, you can settle in and enjoy the ride."-42SciFi-Fantasy.com, Randy Lazarus

From the Introduction by Tabatha Wood: "What follows is a varied collection of dark canine tales that will excite, thrill and captivate readers, while supporting a truly worthwhile cause. And above all else, you know the dog won't die."CONTENTS:Foreword by Alan BaxterIntroduction by Tabatha WoodNero by Shannon Elizabeth Gardner (Artwork)Hunted by Dion Winton-Polak (Poem)Black Cloud Sunshine by Dan RabartsThe Dead Way by J.C. HartVision Thing by Matthew R. DavisShifting in the Black by L.L. AsherSynaesthete by Melanie Harding-ShawFossil Bluff by P.J. Blakey-NovisA Handshake in Darkness by Miranda Crites (Artwork)Night Wolves by Tabatha WoodThe Honeymoon's Over by E.E. KingBlack and Tan by M.E. ProctorDing Dong Bell by Steve Dillon (Poem)The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall by Kaaron WarrenPark Life by Ian J. MiddletonGrey Dog by John Linwood GrantUse a Shovel by Galina TrefilBanjo by Chloe Herczeg (Artwork)I am Become by Hari NavarroYellow Dog by Alan BaxterRedbone by Justin GuleserianThe Feather Wall by Octavia CadeThis Dog's Life by Dion Winton-Polak (Poem)And Don't You Ever Look Back by Falco Verholen (Artwork)From the Foreword by Alan Baxter: "As the stories in this book point out, dogs are the best, and we should all try to be a little bit more like them. Except the butt-sniffing. We don't need that. Unless it's your personal kink, in which case, enjoy! Meanwhile, read this book, be transported by the dark tales, and enriched by the wagging tails. And remember, you are awesome."17 short dark fiction stories, some poems, some illustrations. featuring dogs that you know won't die...

PRAISE FOR THE AUTHORS :: "The entertainment value, and the hints of even greater revelations about the past of the iconic characters, and the world, make me very interested in how Howard Andrew Jones continues the story." - TOR"Kaaron Warren proves that horror fiction can do more than just deliver dis­turbing imagery and violence. It can also compel us to confront our own assumptions and moral principles, to look outside the ordinary." - LOCUS"Lancelot Schaubert's words have an immediacy, a potency, an intimacy that grab the reader by the collar and say, 'Listen, this is important!' Probing the bones and gristle of humanity, Lancelot's subjects challenge, but also offer insights into redemption if only we will stop and pay attention." - Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingway's Girl ABOUT OGAG 2 :: Once more, my friends and colleagues and I have banded together to compose literature connecting astronomy and mythology: to write Of Gods & Globes II. Each one of us chose a name that connected astronomy (science fiction) and mythology (fantasy) such as "Janus" and wrote forth.But why on Earth - or off Earth - would we do such a thing?Well for starters, in his introduction to Bernard Silvestrus's Cosmographia, Winthrop Wetherbee III (which, let's be honest, is a doozy of a name but PERFECT for anyone destined to study and teach Latin) said that the thinkers of the classical and middle ages offered up: The idea the events of earthly life were governed and predetermined by the orderly disposition and activity of the heavenly bodies and could, in part, be foreknown through the careful analysis of celestial phenomena… Adelhard of Bath, in the De eodem et diverso, extols the power of the Arts to guide the soul in its earthly journey; they teach her to recognize her special relation to the rest of creation, to know the nature and intuit the divine pattern of the universe. For the soul's basic affinity is with the divine rationes of things…Man, like the universe, lives and moves through the interplay of rational and irrational forces… which evokes preoccupation with the archetypal implications of myth and the themes of classic literature. We had such a successful launch last time that we decided to come together and write even more stories around this theme. We have continuations on a couple of new universes, hilarious new additions, heartbreaking horror stories, and flirtatious little romps.In the spirit of drawing on themes of myth and classic literature and of the tidal influence of the constellations, I rounded up sci-fi and fantasy writers to write about cosmic influence. The fantasy writers took a more mythological approach, speaking of the symbolic (or perhaps godly) Mercury and Mars and Neptune. The sci-fi writers tell you what it's like to live on Jupiter and Uranus. All of them, though, speak of the influence of what one writer called "the music of the spheres." These are stories Of Gods and Globes. They're quite the ride: I enjoy each of these stories differently. They made me laugh and cry and chilled me to the bone with terror and one of them made me long for a home that… well for a home I don't think I've ever been to before.Come fly with us. Let's fly. Let's fly away.Or, if you prefer, to appeal from Sinatra to Sinatra:Fly me to the moonLet me play among the stars.Let me see what spring is likeOn Jupiter and Mars…Fill my heart with songAnd let me sing forevermoreYou are all I long forAll I worship and adoreLancelot Schaubert Brooklyn, New York 2020

Every nation of the globe has unique tales to tell, whispers that settle in through the land, creatures or superstitions that enliven the night, but rarely do readers get to experience such a diversity of these voices in one place as in A World of Horror, the latest anthology book created by award-winning editor Eric J. Guignard, and beautifully illustrated by artist Steve Lines.Enclosed within its pages are twenty-two all-new dark and speculative fiction stories written by authors from around the world that explore the myths and monsters, fables and fears of their homelands.Encounter the haunting things that stalk those radioactive forests outside Chernobyl in Ukraine; sample the curious dishes one may eat in Canada; beware the veldt monster that mirrors yourself in Uganda; or simply battle mountain trolls alongside Alfred Nobel in Sweden. These stories and more are found within A World of Horror: Enter and discover, truly, there's no place on the planet devoid of frights, thrills, and wondrous imagination!Table of Contents includes:';Introduction: Diversity in Fiction' by Eric J. Guignard';Mutshidzi' by Mohale Mashigo (South Africa)';One Last Wayang' by L Chan (Singapore)';Things I Do For Love' by Nadia Bulkin (Indonesia)';On a Wooden Plate, On a Winter's Night' by David Nickle (Canada)';Country Boy' by Billie Sue Mosiman (United States of America)';The Wife Who Didnt Eat' by Thersa Matsuura (Japan)';The Disappeared' by Kristine Ong Muslim (Philippines)';The Secret Life of the Unclaimed' by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Nigeria)';How Alfred Nobel Got His Mojo' by Johannes Pinter (Sweden)';Sick Cats in Small Spaces' by Kaaron Warren (Australia)';Obibi' by Dilman Dila (Uganda)';The Nightmare' by Rhea Daniel (India)';Chemirocha' by Charlie Human (South Africa)';Honey' by Valya Dudycz Lupescu (Ukraine)';Warning: Flammable, See Back Label' by Marcia Douglas (Jamaica)';Arlecchino' by Carla Negrini (Italy)';The Man at Table Nine' by Ray Cluley (England)';The Mantle of Flesh' by Ashlee Scheuerman (Australia)';The Shadows of Saint Urban' by Claudio Foti (Italy)';Warashi's Grip' by Yukimi Ogawa (Japan)';The White Monkey' by Carlos Orsi (Brazil)';The West Wind' by David McGroarty (Scotland)