Jacob Weisman’s acclaimed anthology INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE is a Kindle Daily Deal for Monday, August 26.

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“Invaders is a playful and imaginative exploration of what it means to write in the field of science fiction”
—AV Club

The invasion of the future has begun.

Literary legends including Steven Millhauser, Junot Diáz, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the borders of the every day. Like time traveling mad-scientists, they have concocted outrageous creations from the future. They have seized upon tales of technology gone wrong and mandated that pulp fiction must finally grow up.

In these wildly-speculative stories you will discover the company that controls the world from an alley in Greenwich Village. You’ll find nanotechnology that returns memories to the residents of a nursing home. You’ll rally an avian-like alien to become a mascot for a Major League Baseball team.

The Invaders are here. But did science fiction colonize them first?

• A Kirkus Science Fiction and Fantasy Book You’ll Want to Read in July
• A 2016 Publishers Weekly Best Summer Read
• A Foreword 4 Great Indie Sci-Fi Titles for Summer 2016

[STAR] “In this very fine reprint anthology, Weisman has brought together 22 SF stories by authors who, although not generally associated with the genre, are clearly fellow travelers (not the ominous invaders suggested by the title). Among the major names are Pulitzer Prize–winner Junot Díaz, George Saunders, Katherine Dunn, Jonathan Lethem, Amiri Baraka, W.P. Kinsella, Steven Millhauser, Robert Olen Butler, and Molly Gloss. Among the best of the consistently strong stories are Díaz’s “Monstro,” the horrifying tale of a disease outbreak in Haiti; Gloss’s near-perfect first-contact story, “Lambing Season”; Kinsella’s totally bizarre “Reports Concerning the Death of the Seattle Albatross Are Somewhat Exaggerated”; Ben Loory’s fable-like “The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun”; and Saunders’s “Escape from Spiderhead,” a deeply sexy tale of wild experimental science. In general, the stories tend toward satire and emphasize fine writing more than hitting genre beats—technology is usually a means to an end rather than the center of the story—but most of them could easily have found homes in SF magazines. This volume is a treasure trove of stories that draw equally from SF and literary fiction, and they are superlative in either context.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Further proof, if any more were necessary, that the line between genre and literary fiction is simply speculative.”
—Library Journal

“Well, damn. From the first page to the last, Invaders surprised and intoxicated me, offering one stirring, visionary, warm-hearted, funny, probing story after another. Reading them in quick succession made me feel as if the world was flickering before my eyes, ricocheting from one possible reality to another, beneath a dozen different suns. It would be hard to devise a better survey of those contemporary short fiction writers, both celebrated and undersung, who have worked to smuggle the methods of science fiction into the mainstream.”
—Kevin Brockmeier, author of A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip

“For almost forty years I’ve believed and practiced and preached that there’s no necessary distance between ‘high literature’ and ‘science fiction.’ Invaders is convincing proof. Funny, absurd, frightening, streetwise, probing, heartbreaking — the fiction collected here touches all registers.”
—Carter Scholz, author of The Amount to Carry: Stories  and Radiance

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• “Portal” by J. Robert Lennon
• “Beautiful Monsters” by Eric Puchner
• “The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun” by Ben Loory.
• “Five Fucks” by Jonathan Lethem
• “LIMBs” by Julia Elliott
• “We Are The Olfanauts” by Deji Bryce Olukotun
• “The Region of Unlikeness” by Rivka Galchen
• “A Precursor of the Cinema” by Steven Millhauser
• “In the Bushes” by Jami Attenberg
• “Fugue State” by Brian Evenson
• “Reports Concerning the Death of the Seattle Albatross Are Somewhat Exaggerated” by W. P. Kinsella
• “Lambing Season” by Molly Gloss
• “Conrad Loomis & The Clothes Ray” by Amiri Baraka.
• “Topics in Advanced Rocketry” by Chris Tarry
• “The Inner City” by Karen Heuler
• “Escape from Spiderhead” by George Saunders
• “Amorometer” by Kelly Luce
• “The Yogurt of Vasirin Kefirovsky” by Max Apple
• “Monstros” by Junot Díaz
• “Minotaur” by Jim Shepard
• “Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover” by Robert Olen Butler
• “Near-Flesh” by Katherine Dunn

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Cover art by Goro Fujita

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