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Greater Than His Nature Kindle Edition
In every laboratory, every experiment, there are two diametrical energies at play: chaos and control. The raw pandemonium of what is, and the diamond-sheen of what could be. And in between? Blood, bones, and broken hearts. Because no equation, no solution, will ever be able to contain the wild entropy of the human soul.
Within these pages, you'll find reverse mermaids and vengeful shrew-women and bloated flesh-monsters tearing down the Golden Gate Bridge. A nurse waving a patient into a haunted MRI machine. A reimagined Mary Shelley obsessing about her galvanic guy. The dead will come back, organs will grow where you least expect them, and "healthy" will be outed as a disease all its own, the most damning by a long mile.
Like the highest-born hopes of bodies sacrificed to progress, like the darkest dreams of the brains behind the beakers, mad science knows no bounds.
Featuring new fiction from Katharine Duckett, A.T. Greenblatt, Ally Malinenko, Tyler Battaglia, Samantha H. Chung, Jonathan Fortin, Brianna Nicole Frentzko, Josh Hanson, Wade Hunter, M.W. Irving, Pooja Joshi, Andrew Kozma, K.L. Mill, Lena Ng, Robert Perez, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Violet Schwegler, and Nicole M. Wolverton. Edited by Eirik Gumeny.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAtomic Carnival Books
- Publication dateOctober 24, 2023
- File size2440 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B0CKFC9G34
- Publisher : Atomic Carnival Books; 1st edition (October 24, 2023)
- Publication date : October 24, 2023
- Language : English
- File size : 2440 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 229 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,219,031 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,951 in Horror Comedy
- #2,673 in Horror Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #7,446 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Eirik Gumeny is the [insert superlatives here] author of the cult-favorite Exponential Apocalypse series. He’s written for WIRED, Cracked, Monkeybicycle, Kaleidotrope, a bunch of anthologies, a couple of medical textbooks, and even The New York Times once.
Born with cystic fibrosis, Eirik still has cystic fibrosis, because that’s how genetic diseases work. In 2014, he received a double lung transplant and technically died a little. He got better.
Forged in the suburban sprawl of northeastern New Jersey, Eirik currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he regularly has to fight giant atomic ants with a flamethrower. Find him on Bluesky, Patreon, or his website.
Josh Hanson is the author of King's Hill (October 2023), The Woodcutters (November 2023), Fortress (forthcoming from Off Limits Press), Caliope Street (forthcoming from Moonstruck Books), as well as numerous stories and poems in a wide variety of publications and anthologies.
He is a graduate of the University of Montana MFA program and currently teaches high school English in northern Wyoming.
Robert Perez sleeps at the bottom of the ocean. Urban legend whispers that the writer can be summoned into your dreams if you read his work to a jack-o-lantern. You can find his poems and stories in the Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Volumes II, III, IV (Special Mention), V, X, and XI (Featured Poet), Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove, Community of Magic Pens, Greater Than His Nature, Cursed Cooking, and more. Robert Perez recently graduated and works as a psychological counselor
providing therapy.
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- Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2023Every story in this anthology was intense and fun to read. There were a couple stories that rambled a bit. But my absolute favorite was the Potential Man. Perfect way to round off and end this true science fiction anthology. And it was refreshing to read science fiction in its most pure form.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024I loved all of these stories and underlined a lot while reading! The book has great variety and cohesion; it was the perfect travel companion. My favorites were The Soulless Eyes of a Fish by Jonathan Fortin, Ghost in the Machine by Ally Malinenko, and The Sum of Our Parts by Nicole M. Wolverton. Each story shines in its own unique way and I enjoyed them all.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023I loved the concept and unifying theme. The stories were interesting but I kept thinking, ‘I want more story.’ Tease out the tension, build it up a bit more. It was fun but regularly left me wanting more. I wanted to leave 3.5 stars but I couldn’t do half stars. It’s good but not great. Most of the stories left me wanting more or didn't feel fully realized.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023What happens when science goes wrong? These stories take you on a journey of science gone amuk. Mutated creatures and other horrors await.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2023Fun fact about indie reviewing: posting reviews will usually get you more review requests. The requests tend to be in the same vein as the review you just posted, but they're not usually quite so literal as this one. Shortly after posting a review titled "Memoir of a Mad Scientist" I almost immediately received a review request for this anthology of all mad science related tales. Naturally, as I had just reviewed something similar, I accepted.
I've seen many people review anthologies by giving mini reviews for every story. But as there are so many, and that's never been my style anyway, I'm going to speak in broader terms. Firstly, I enjoyed the curation of the work as a whole. I've reviewed many anthologies whose stories varied so widely there was a kind of metaphorical whiplash from piece to piece. But every story in here fits so well, it's like they were all made specifically for it. (For all I know, they were all specifically made for it.)
There are a couple different themes of stories. There were incredibly short stories, usually with surprise endings. There were apocalypses of varying flavors. There was body horror. There were those particularly surreal ones where the body-based science was clearly meant to be an analogy for intangible concepts. Unfortunately, my brain doesn't tend to vibe well with surrealism. I mostly just think "that's a cool sounding sentence" and let the rest slide off. But as that's more of a personal preference, I didn't take off a star.
There were really only a couple stories where I felt there were any technical issues. Like an antagonist's gaslighting coming out of nowhere or repetition in the writing that was clearly meant to be poetic, but came off as clunky. If I was the kind of reviewer to give specific star ratings for individual stories, I may have rated those couple a four. But in the grand scheme of things, it was negligible.
When I review sci-fi, I like to note how beginner friendly it would be. This one is definitely not the best for an absolute beginner, but anyone that's had an interest in Mary Shelley will probably appreciate it. Although some of the stories in here turn up the body horror beyond what Ms. Shelley would have been allowed to publish in her time (but you just know she would've). Be on the look out for gore.
All in all, a great pick for some twisted sci-fi.