Truer Love and Other Lies
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Publisher Description
The stories in Truer Love and Other Lies deal with Boneypunk, indeterminate angels, and man's inhumanity to, well, everything. On further investigation, a part is played by crackerjack popes, reluctant revolutionaries, illegal temporal aliens, and dead giants who love Get Smart. Further, truer love would simply have to include smartass prophets, avenging whales, defenders of Wonderland, and the inevitability of becoming a werewolf when hired by the moon.
Ranging from hard science to fantasy, from surrealism to pulp adventure, from satire to magic realism, this debut collection by Edd Vick includes stories from magazines, including Analog and Asimovs, and many anthologies. Several entries have never before been published, and two of them were co-written with Vick's regular collaborator Manny Frishberg.
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The eclectic stories in Vick's provocative first collection span from the serious to the whimsical and from hard-edged science fiction to gauzy fantasy. In opening tale "Moon Does Run," an artificial intelligence has an identity crisis in the midst of a war as its memory is wiped several times over by ever-changing programmers to reflect which political group is in power. In a strong tonal contrast, "Silver and Scythe," cowritten with Manny Frishberg, tells the quaint but unsatisfying story of the fae cutting off ties with the human world. "The Great Depth" leaves humanity behind altogether to follow a whale on a desperate mission to save her kind, and perhaps the sea itself, from a ravenous monster of the deep. Despite the broad range of subject matter, the authorial voice is strikingly assured throughout. Though some stories, including "Rebel the First and Only" and "Innermost Box," feel more like premises than fully realized plots, Vick's facility with language will keep readers engaged. There is a bit of something for everyone in this competent and quirky work.
