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Marian Womack's new collection of short fiction.

The employee of a library-planet grapples with industrial espionage. The connection between an indie comic and a local boogie-man is discovered by a group of friends. In a future museum of the mind, a nostalgia-addicted curator tries to understand the emotions of 20th century humans. An Anglo-Saxon traveller narrates her journey into the Artic regions to her Queen. A group of friends tries to capture the last pink-footed goose on Planet Earth…

Marian Womack’s new collection of short stories shows us how the then and the now, the future and the past, are made of the same particles. Loneliness, nostalgia and its dark ghosts, and the possibilities for humanity if technology and preservation dovetail, are brought together with Womack’s characteristic crossing of genres, places and moods. Out Through the Window, Into the Dark is a collection for our and future times, movingly demonstrating the devastating consequences of our collective actions.


Available 16 November 2024

  • author: Marian Womack
  • design: Vince Haig
  • isbn: 978-1-9162321-7-4
  • pages: 224

 

PRAISE FOR MARIAN WOMACK:

Highlights everything that speculative fiction, of all possible modes of literature, excels at.- Nina Allan

Marian Womack is fiendishly imaginative. She creates magic.- Priya Sharma

Writing chockfull of interesting ideas about the natural world and ourselves. – Jeff VanderMeer 

A supremely gifted writer. – Elizabeth Hand 

Marian Womack is an exciting and endlessly inventive writer. I look forward to reading everything she writes. – Naomi Booth 

Marian Womack weaves together the lyricism of Angela Carter, the mad imagination of China Miéville, and the earthiness of Robert Macfarlane. A fantastic new talent. – Helen Marshall

Marian Womack is a rising star. – Tim Major

 

Marian Womack is a bilingual Hispanic-British author, editor and translator of Weird fiction, Horror, speculative fiction, and fiction of the Anthropocene. Her writing deals with man’s relationship with nature and its loss through cross-genre, hybrid and experimental approaches, and she holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Environmental Humanities.

Marian’s publications include the novels The Swimmers (2021), The Golden Key (2020), and On the Nature of Magic (2023). Her short fiction has been included in numerous collaborative works, used in art installations, and collected in the volumes Lost Objects (2018), and Out Through The Window, Into The Dark (2024). She co-edited, with Gary Budden, the international eco-fiction anthology An Invite to Eternity: Tales of Nature Disrupted (Calque Press, 2019), and is a contributor to Writing the Future: Essays on Crafting Science Fiction (2023). She has taught creative writing, publishing studies and book history in Spain and the UK, and is the first Spanish graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop.

Marian’s work has been included in Year’s Bests, selected among the top science fiction novels of the year by The Sunday Times, and nominated for two British Fantasy Awards and one British Science Fiction Association Award. She is a member of the Climate Fiction Writer's League.

 

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