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Everyone wants to know who killed Gladwell the Parodist. Everyone, that is, except Jim Tate, alias Antinous, who is far more interested in the unpublished novels Ralph Gladwell is rumoured to have left behind. The brilliant Parodist, despiser of the modern novel, whose wit could skewer any writer living or dead, could have been murdered by any one of his many victims. But who was Gladwell really, and what true face lay behind his sardonic mask...

Yamato is a tense alternative-history thriller set in 1953 during the American occupation of Japan. Lieutenant Harvey Brice, an army intelligence officer, is found in his apartment with a bullet in his head. But was it suicide or homicide? World-weary CIA agent Ralph Carnaby, together with his Japanese-American sidekick, Dan Morita, are unwittingly drawn into a conspiracy which is unfolding in the very heart of the occupation headquarters i...

The first Japanese-language introduction to the fascinating world of Serbian fantasy master Zoran Zivkovic. Contains three of his best shorts: "The Teashop, " "The Fire" and "Hole in the Wall, " along with an introductory essay by Tatsumi Takayuki. (Japanese-language edition) 真真真真真真真型真真真真真真真真型真真真(Zivkovic)真真真真真真真真真真真 SF真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真 真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真 真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真

On a strange train journey, in a series of six compartments, a traveler experiences unpredictable encounters, culminating in a meeting of epiphanic power. Through a narrative of dreamlike sharpness Compartments taps into the fears and absurdities, the beauties and mysteries of the unconscious mind, to achieve a consummation both moving and full of hope. This volume also contains the novella "The Square, " an uplifting meditation on the restor...

Ten linked stories with resonant titles explore almost every conceivable aspect of human memory: the positive and the negative, the precious and the profane, the heavenly and the unbearably hellish. Zivkovic's deceptively simple tales anatomize the essence of what makes human beings tick, our passions, our vanities and yearnings, the very memories which make us who we are.

In what strange edifice of the imagination do you find a condemned cell, a hotel room and a hospital room? What kind of hotel offers a zinc mine, a meat-packing plant, a weapons factory and a cemetery of famous artists among its attractions? Why do four people commit suicide in the same bathroom and why does a literature professor cut up several of the greatest works of literature into a confetti of letters? In this wildly imaginative, wildly ...

A cycle of six thematically linked stories, droll renditions of the nightmares ensuing upon misplaced, or (of course) excessive, bibliophilia. A writer encounters a website where all his possible future books are on display, a lonely man faces an infinite flow of hardback books through his mailbox, an ordinary library turns by night into an archive of souls, the Devil sets about raising standards of infernal literacy, one book houses all books...

In this suite of eight stories, the three ages of woman - youth, midlife and senescence - engage in a complex and fruitful dance. A young Miss Tamara is lured by a series of postcards concealed in library books. A middle-aged Miss Tamara discovers that her new reading glasses turn the pages blank. An afternoon's reading is disturbed by the realization that all books have turned fatally toxic. A mysterious phone call leads to a book which blind...