Like Water for Quarks

by Elton Elliott (Editor), Bruce Taylor (Editor), Alan M. Clark (Illustrator)

Science Fiction meets Magic Realism in one ground-breaking anthology featuring stories by some of SF's greatest names and brightest Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, Connie Willis, Greg Bear, Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert, Pamela Sargent, George Zebrowski, Jerry Oltion, Robert J. Sawyer, William F. Nolan, Jay Lake, Ray Vukcevich, Kathleen Alcala, Jason V. Brock, Mary E. Choo, Elton Elliott, James Glass, Bruce Taylor, Patrick Swenson, Doug Odell, and Tamara Kaye Sellman

312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 29, 2011

About the author

US author, editor, reviewer and publisher whose solo sf debut was "Lighting Candles on the River Styx" (March 1991 Amazing). His early novel-length work appeared in the 1980s in collaboration with Richard E Geis, under the pseudonym Richard Elliott (whom see for discussion of these books). Written in collaboration with Doug Odell, Elliott's Prince of Europe (2009) is the first part of the Nanoclone trilogy of thrillers exploring the physical and political transformations caused by a breakthrough in science and Technology.

Elliott also wrote for Geis's Science Fiction Review (see The Alien Critic) 1977-1980, contributing the column "The Human Hotline: S-F News" .

Elliott edited the Nanotechnology-themed anthology Nanodreams (anth 1995) and, with Bruce Taylor, Like Water for Quarks (anth 2011), a book of stories fusing Magic Realism and science fiction. He is the editor (and his collaborator Doug Odell the publisher) for MVP Publishing, a small company specializing in works of science fiction, fantasy and magic realism, through which Elliott publishes his own work.

Reviews

[Adventures in SciFi Publishing Podcast]

REVIEW SUMMARY: Stories exploring fascinating experiences and characters in worlds stranger than I’ve imagined and yet close enough to home to feel I belonged there.

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Like Water for Quarks contains stories with suffocating darkness, inter-dimensional portals, life-altering mailmen, ghosts in the ether, and many more mind blowing elements which champion magical realism as a genre for the imagination.

Full review at SF Signal: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013...

Podcast with editor, Bruce Taylor, about magical realism: http://www.adventuresinscifipublishin...

[Charl · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting collection of stories of the fantastic right alongside the mundane. Not quite Science Fiction, not quite Fantasy, but in the borderland between. More than one story made me pause before starting the next, a very good thing in my reality.

[Timothy Ward · Rating 4 out of 5]

My review is up at SF Signal: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013...