Book Launch for LEARNING TO HATE YOURSELF AS A SELF-DEFENSE MECHANISM by Andrea Kriz
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Save the date! We’re hosting Andrea Kriz to celebrate the publication of her debut short story collection, Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism. This genre-blending collection explores fantastical futures and how we cope with them.
About the BookYour friend creates an award-winning VR game — based on your friendship. An AI starts a YouTube channel at the expense of its creator. A fanfic writer plagiarizing the lives of the marginalized gets her comeuppance. Time travel meets magic in a world blown into pieces by war. Dragons modify DNA and undergo peer review. In Andrea Kriz’s debut short story collection, technology and genres wildly blend in stories that will challenge how you see our future.
Stories include “Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism,” “Communist Computer Rap God,” “There Are No Hot Topics on Whukai,” “Miss DELETE Myself,” “AIs Who Make AIs Make the Best AIs!” “The Ones Who Got Away from Time and Loss,” “Rebuttal to Reviewer’s Comments on Edits for “Demonstration of a Novel Draconification Protocol in a Human Subject”,” “I Want to Dream of a Brief Future,” “And That’s Why I Gave Up on Magic,” “Resistance in a Drop of DNA,” “The Last Caricature of Jean Moulin,” and “The Leviathan and the Fury.”
Pre-order the book today!“Read individually, these are brilliant stories. But together, they are something greater — in her characteristically deft prose, Kriz offers a deep and extended meditation on the commodification of identity and authenticity, plagiarism and loss of the self, the personal and the cultural memory of war. Readers will find so much to love in this collection; rereaders will find even more.”
— P.H. Lee, author of the Nebula-award nominated Just Enough Rain
“Andrea Kriz’s knowledge and passion for a variety of topics shine through in this collection. Disparate topics like artificial intelligence, the French Resistance during WW2, and molecular biology are skillfully woven into narratives that elicit a variety of emotional responses. I wanted to snort with delight, sob with righteous anger, and sigh with dismay as I explored Kriz’s creations. A monotone book this is determinedly not — Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism and other stories is a glorious tapestry of multihued ideas, characters, feelings and stories.”
— Sharang Biswas, ENNIE & IndieCade Award-winning Game DesignerAbout the Author
Andrea Kriz writes from Massachusetts, where she does research as a molecular biologist. In addition to the stories in this collection, her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld and Lightspeed Magazine, among others, and been translated into French in Galaxies SF. She is also part of the Dartmouth Speculative Fiction Project, a collaboration between authors and Dartmouth faculty to create short stories exploring the future of humanity. You can find her online at https://andreakriz.wordpress.com/ or on Twitter @theworldshesaw.
“Andrea Kriz’s uncompromising, subversive, and elegant stories address all the big themes — and the little ones too — with a clear eye and post-modern sensibility. While her stories address race and colonialism and Covid, they also examine connection and loneliness, our assumptions about each other, and what it means to be human. Literary SF at its best!”
— Shariann Lewitt, author of Memento Mori and “Fieldwork”
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2024
6:00pm CST
Online via Zoom. Registration Required (Limited to 25 attendees).
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