Reviewer: Sneak Peek – Robert Frazier and Bruce Boston’s Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest

Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing

The copy I have, I believe, was still going through final proofing and such; therefore, I will not be making comments on any of those details.

NOTE…I love the title and cover

Author Robert Frazier’s Bio: lives on Nantucket Island, once known as the center of the American whaling industry, with his wife, Karol Lindquist, a nationally recognized basket maker. He works as the curator of exhibitions for the Artists Association of Nantucket, and has oil paintings in galleries in New York State, Cape Cod, and on the island (visit www.oldspoutergallery.com).

 

He has attended the Clarion Writers Workshop, Sycamore Hill Writer’s Workshop, and the Franklinia Workshop. Frazier is the author of nine books of poetry, and a three-time winner of the Rhysling Award, as well as an Asimov’s Reader Award for poetry. He was on the 1991 final ballot for a Nebula Award for fiction (collaborating with Lucius Shepard). Over 100 poems have appeared in Asimov’s SF, as well as in The Twilight Zone Magazine, F&SF, Omni, and other anthologies and publications. His books include Perception BarriersThe Daily Chernobyl, and Phantom Navigation. He received the Grandmaster Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association in 2005.

Author Bruce Boston’s Bio: Bruce Boston lives in Ocala, Florida, once known as the City of Trees, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon, and the ghosts of two cats. He is the author of more than fifty books and chapbooks, including the dystopian sf novel The Guardener’s Tale and the psychedelic coming-of-age noel Stained Glass Rain. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including Asimov’s SF Magazine, Analog, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, Daily Science Fiction, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Nebula Awards Showcase.

One of the leading genre poets for more than thirty years, Boston has won the Bram Stoker Award for Poetry Collection, the Asimov’sReaders Award for Poetry, and the Rhysling Award for Speculative Poetry, each a record number of times. He has also received a Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the first Grandmaster Award  of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Currently, in addition to his writing, he edits speculative poetry for The Pedestal Magazine.

www.bruceboston.com

Story Synopsis:

 The Mutant Rain Forest is nature’s revenge upon man’s despoliation.

Robert Frazier and Bruce Boston, SFPA’s first two Grandmaster Poets, created and began exploring the Mutant Rain Forest in the late 1980s with both collaborative and solo works.

Since that time, stories and/or poems set in the Mutant Rain Forest have appeared in Omni, Asimov’s SF Magazine, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin’s), Year’s Best Horror (DAW), The Rhysling Anthology, and many other publications.

In the mutant rain forest it’s adapt or be redacted.

Their collaborative poem “Return to the Mutant Rain Forest” received first place in the 2006 Locus Poll for All-Time Favorite Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Poem. Visions of the Mutant Rain Forestcollects the best stories and poems from this world: two novelettes, four short stories, two flash fictions (nearly 40,000 words of fiction), and 38 poems, including two stories and five poems appearing here for the first time.

Maggot to fly. Tadpole to poison frog. Man to abomination.

Includes the following short stories:

  • Cruising Through Blueland
  • Holos at an Exhibition of the Mutant Rain Forest
  • The Tale Within
  • A Trader on the Border of the Mutant Rain Forest
  • Going Green in the Mutant Rain Forest
  • Descent into Eden
  • Aerial Reconnaissance of a Conflagration…
  • Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest
  • And a lot of poems!

Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing – Tales from the Darkest Depths