Different Beasts

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2019

ISBN-13: 9781773101279

<p><b>Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Speculative Fiction</b></p><p>A bear runs amok in a luxury hotel. A daily swim at the local pool becomes a question of life or death. The champion of a border wall faces an unexpected adversary.</p><p>The twelve stories in <i>Different Beasts</i> ask what it means to be both human and monster. Shape-shifting waifs, haunted stuffies, scavenging drones, insectoid demon-gods, and mutant angels all come to life in this wildly imagined debut. As do broken soldiers, disgraced politicians, tired parents, ogres and children, opportunists, and desperate survivors &#8212; human beasts each struggling with the animalian aspects of their nature.</p><p>In this wild, fantastical, viscerally memorable debut, J.R. McConvey explores the power dynamics that undergird social relationships and crystallize into structures of fealty and worship, fear and control, aspiration and desire.</p>