PRE-ORDER: Beauty is Complicated: Essays on the Weird

PRE-ORDER: Beauty is Complicated: Essays on the Weird

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"Confirms her as one of the modern masters of the short story form... An essential document of one of our key authors working in genre today". The Fantasy Hive

Marian Womack’s first collection of essays interrogates speculative genres--Weird fiction, Horror, the Gothic--and how they are best suited to interpret the world we live in. 

  • author: Marian Womack
  • design: Vince Haig
  • isbn: 978-1-7384836-0-0
  • pages: 200

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 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 anthologies and lists, shortlisted to two British Fantasy Awards and a British Science Fiction Association Award. She is a member of the Climate Fiction Writer's League.

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