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Dogs of Truth: New and Uncollected Stories
The Dogs of Truth contains 17 new or previously uncollected short stories. Included are "High Rise High," about a student revolt at the ultimate "secure" high school; "Focus Group," where a star-struck fan dictates the fate of soap opera characters through a biochip implant; "Escape from Shark Island," which looks at an extreme version of today's trendy "family bed;" and "Precautions," where germ-phobia reigns supreme.
The new stories tell of the "Grand Opening" of the world's largest mega-mall, study the relationship of a writer and his muse in "Getting It Back," and, in "The Shop of Little Horrors," take a dark look at the child-free lifestyle.
The new stories tell of the "Grand Opening" of the world's largest mega-mall, study the relationship of a writer and his muse in "Getting It Back," and, in "The Shop of Little Horrors," take a dark look at the child-free lifestyle.
288 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2005
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About the author
Kit Reed
192 books53 followersKit Reed was an American author of both speculative fiction and literary fiction, as well as psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig.
Her 2013 "best-of" collection, The Story Until Now, A Great Big Book of Stories was a 2013 Shirley Jackson Award nominee. A Guggenheim fellow, she was the first American recipient of an international literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. She's had stories in, among others, The Yale Review, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Omni and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature. Her books Weird Women, Wired Women and Little Sisters of the Apocalypse were finalists for the Tiptree Prize. A member of the board of the Authors League Fund, she served as Resident Writer at Wesleyan University.
Her 2013 "best-of" collection, The Story Until Now, A Great Big Book of Stories was a 2013 Shirley Jackson Award nominee. A Guggenheim fellow, she was the first American recipient of an international literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. She's had stories in, among others, The Yale Review, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Omni and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature. Her books Weird Women, Wired Women and Little Sisters of the Apocalypse were finalists for the Tiptree Prize. A member of the board of the Authors League Fund, she served as Resident Writer at Wesleyan University.
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February 12, 2019
Very hit or miss. A few struck me as pointless or written so that the point was less than evident (Grand Opening, The Zombie Prince), some were repetitive even within the own volume, and done less well than their colleagues (Incursions), but some were pretty enjoyable (Visiting the Dead, Yard Sale, The Shop of Little Horrors). And I found Escape from Shark Island darkly hilarious.
I almost stopped a couple of times, but there was a big part of me that just really wanted to see what she might come up with next. The darkness that was well done was really well done.
I am irrationally irked that I spent time trying to trace the origins of the epigraph ("The hounds of heaven run hard, closely followed by the dogs of truth"). If something is not a quotation, DON'T PUT IT IN QUOTES! (Unless someone can tell me that it is a quotation, and not something Kit Reed made up.)
I almost stopped a couple of times, but there was a big part of me that just really wanted to see what she might come up with next. The darkness that was well done was really well done.
I am irrationally irked that I spent time trying to trace the origins of the epigraph ("The hounds of heaven run hard, closely followed by the dogs of truth"). If something is not a quotation, DON'T PUT IT IN QUOTES! (Unless someone can tell me that it is a quotation, and not something Kit Reed made up.)
December 8, 2014
Like a previous collection (Weird Women, Wired Women) Kit's stories are a twist on the issues in modern society, from helicopter parenting gone very, very wrong to...I won't give away anymore. The only negative is that is can be hard to find this book.
August 1, 2007
So many of these stories let me down. Fantastic concepts; poorly developed narratives. Frustrating. I felt like I wanted to rewrite a lot of them because the set-ups were so great.
December 16, 2016
Just about the quirkiest short story collection I've read in quite a long time. If you're looking for a story collection loaded with surprising twists & turns, this is it.
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