Mechanical Animals: Tales at the Crux of Creatures and Tech

Lauren Beukes (Author) Selena Chambers (Editor)

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Description

A speculative fiction safari that riffs on the traditional ideals of automata to explore our strange and competitive relationship with the natural world. Biomimicry is no stranger to literature, with canonical authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hans Christian Anderson, and Jules Verne setting the tone for a trope that has expounded and expanded upon what exactly separates humans from the animal kingdom as well as the boundary between machines and living beings. Featuring 15 original stories by today's top science fiction and fantasy authors and contextual mecha-fauna essays by artist and Insect Lab Studio maker, Mike Libby, and SF encyclopedist and author Jess Nevins, Mechanical Animals presents a biomimicry menagerie of animalistic machines that will blur the lines between what is and isn't nature's design.

Edited by Selena Chambers and Jason Heller

Featuring:
Mike Libby
Jess Nevins
Tessa Kum
Delia Sherman
Maurice Broaddus
Sarah Hans
Lauren Beukes
Jesse Bullington
An Owomoyela
Stephen Graham Jones
Hans Christian Andersen
Molly Tanzer
Aliette de Bodard
Nick Mamatas
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Kat Howard
Michael Cisco
Adrian Van Young
Robert T. Toombs
Joseph S. Pulver, Jr.
Alistair Rennie
Jules Verne
Caroline Yoachim
Carrie Vaughn

Product Details

Price

$19.99 $18.59

Publisher

Hex Publishers LLC

Publish Date

November 27, 2018

Pages

418

Dimensions

5.0 X 8.0 X 0.93 inches | 0.99 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9780999773673

BISAC Categories:

Science Fiction - Steampunk

Anthologies (multiple authors)

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About the Author

Lauren Beukes is the award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Shining Girls, which has been adapted by AppleTV+, as well as Zoo City, Moxyland, Broken Monsters, and Afterland. Her novels have been published in twenty-four countries, and she's also a screenwriter, comics writer, journalist and award-winning documentary maker. She lives in London with two trouble cats and her daughter.

Selena Chambers' fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a variety of venues including MungBeing magazine, Clarkesworld, The Non-Binary Review, Pornokitsch, Tor.com, Bookslut, and in recent anthologies such as Cthulhu's Daughter (Prime Books, 2016), and Cassilda's Song (Chaosium, 2015). Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart, Best of the Net, the Hugo award, and two World Fantasy awards, including one in 2016 for the story "The Neurastheniac," included in this collection. Writing as S. J. Chambers in 2011, she co-authored the critically-acclaimed and best-selling The Steampunk Bible with Jeff VanderMeer (Abrams Image), but has since eschewed the initials. She is currently editing an anthology with Jason Heller for Hex Publishing named Mechanical Animals, forthcoming in 2018. You can find out more about her work and happenings at www.selenachambers.com.

Jason Heller is the author of Strange Stars, Taft 2012, and numerous short stories in magazines and anthologies. He's also a Hugo Award-winning editor for his work in Clarkesworld Magazine. Jason has written about pop culture for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The A.V. Club, and many others. In his spare time, he plays guitar in the post-punk band Weathered Statutes and is a resident DJ at Funk Club and Mile High Soul Club. He lives in Denver with his wife, Angie.

Reviews

INTRODUCTION: MAKING TOTEMIC SENSE
Mike Libby

MECHANICAL ANIMALS
Jess Nevins

TWO BEES DANCING
Tessa Kum

BRASS MONKEY
Delia Sherman

THE REBEL
Maurice Broaddus and Sarah Hans

EXHIBITIONIST
Lauren Beukes

STRAY FROG
Jesse Bullington

THE HARD SPOT IN THE GLACIER
An Owomoyela

EVERY SINGLE WONDERFUL DETAIL
Stephen Graham Jones

THE NIGHTINGALE
Hans Christian Andersen

LE CYGNE BAISEUR
Molly Tanzer