Rossetti
Song: Four Stories
Alex Irvine
July 2002
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- "The Sands of Iwo
Jima" received an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best
Fantasy & Horror
- F&SF review
- Locus Online review
- Tangent Online review
No.3
in the Small Beer Press chapbook
series, Rossetti Song, is by up-and-coming writer, Alex
Irvine. Alex has recently had stories in Scifiction, F&SF,
Strange Horizons, Electric Velocipede, LCRW, and many other
wonderful places. Rossetti Song contains four stories:
two were previously published in F&SF, "The Sea
Wind Offers Little Relief" was original to Starlight 3,
and "The Sands of Iwo Jima" is new for this collection.
Designed by Thom Davidsohn.
Contents
Rossetti
Song - read it now
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Akhenaten
The Sea Wind Offers Little Relief
Who is Alex Irvine?
He's
the winner of the Crawford and Locus Awards. Here's his website.
He had a story in LCRW No.8*,
and was a John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award finalist (website),
which, handily, lists many of his publications.
Here's another picture.
Alex is also responsible (with designer Thom Davidsohn)
for The Journal of
Pulse-Pounding Narratives, an amazing pulp-style colllection
(which is for sale here).
Review
Read a review on Locus
Online
And look what's being said about his first novel,
A Scattering of Jades:
"The characterization is nearly as accomplished
as the historiography, and the two together make the book an exceedingly
solid achievement, with a great deal of promise for the author's
future."
-- Publishers Weekly
"Smartly written, uncliched.... [A]n intelligent
and strongly written debut historical-fantasy by a descendant
of P. T. Barnum's. Excellently researched, this fantasia about
New York City, Kentucky, and the Midwest in the 1840s mixes US
history and Aztec mythology."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"Irvine's prose is rich and evocative, his
plot tightly structured and beautifully paced. The denouement,
when it arrives, offers no easy answers; each of the principals
leaves the scene damaged. Most impressive is Irvine's interweaving
of two seemingly unrelated histories and myth structures without
straining the credibility of either."
-- Washington Post Book World
* This is what we said about him then:
Alex
Irvine is far too sporty to stay indoors and write, and yet he
does. Look at that author photo. He has a story in the anthology
Starlight 3, and probably has one in the next F&SF.
His novel, A Scattering of Jades, will be published by
Tor in 2002. In 2001 he was one of the writers on the A.I.
webgame and has co-written a novelization (A.I.:The Death
of Evan Chan) with Sean Stewart.
Author pic (with friend) by Beth Gwinn.
