Out of the Window, Into the Dark
short fiction
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"[C]onfirms 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
"[H]ighlights Womack’s versatility as a writer... [A] beautiful and often eerie set of tales to beguile and intrigue a reader". Runalong the Shelves
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.
- author: Marian Womack
- design: Vince Haig
- isbn: 9781916232174
- pages: 224
Advanced praise for Out of the Window, Into the Dark:
'Rarely will you find a collection of stories so keenly attuned to the anxieties of the world we live in, expressed with such urgent beauty: Out of the Window, Into the Dark situates itself at the intersection of past, present and future, of allegory, elegy and warning. As affirming as they are devastating, these are stories which remind us that art and truth are still worth fighting for.' Laura Mauro
'Marian Womack is a formidable talent. Each story in Out of the Window, Into the Dark sparkles like cut-glass... A mesmeric must-read'. Helen Marshall
'Marian Womack writes stories with a watchful, intelligent eye on the world. The tales in this collection discuss many possibilities with a discomfiting yet poetic clarity I hugely admire.' Aliya Whiteley
'Tales that evoke the wild worldbuilding of Ursula LeGuin and the unsettling domesticity of Shirley Jackson... Unpredictable, yet consistently affecting and rewarding.' Tim Major
'Marian Womack's shrapnel-sharp, deeply compassionate stories crackle with furious life and invention.' Malcolm Devlin
'This is a gorgeous, thought-provoking collection, weaving together multiple pasts and presents, and reflecting on uncertain futures. There is horror, and beauty, and very dark humour, and most of all there is an intense engagement with an increasingly fragile world. I'll be thinking about these stories long after the final page.' Sarah L Brooks
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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