Totalitopia - (Outspoken Authors) by John Crowley (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

John Crowley's all-new essay "Totalitopia" is a wry how-to guide for building utopias out of the leftovers of modern science fiction. "This Is Our Town," written especially for this volume, is a warm, witty, and wonderfully moving story about angels, cousins, and natural disasters based on a parochial school third-grade reader. One of Crowley's hard-to-find masterpieces, "Gone" is a Kafkaesque science fiction adventure about an alien invasion that includes door-to-door leafleting and yard work. Perhaps the most entertaining of Crowley's "Easy Chair" columns in Harper's, "Everything That Rises" explores the fractal interface between Russian spiritualism and quantum singularities--with a nod to both Columbus and Flannery O'Connor. "And Go Like This" creeps in from Datlow's Year's Best, the Wild Turkey of horror anthologies.

Plus: There's a bibliography, an author bio, and of course our Outspoken Interview, the usual cage fight between candor and common sense.

Review Quotes

"One of the finest writers working today."
--Pittsburgh Tribune

"John Crowley is a virtuoso of metaphor, a peerless recreator of living moments, of small daily sublimities."
--New York Times Book Review

"Crowley has enough imagination for ten ordinary writers."
--Kirkus Reviews

"A writer of unmistakable humanity and unparalleled style."
--Philadelphia Inquirer

"Like a magus, John Crowley shares his secrets generously, allowing us to believe that his book is revealing the true and glorious nature of the world, and the reader's own place within it."
--Village Voice

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