Jeffrey Ford Books

In the far future, the world is divided into two cultures, each controlled by the mysterious and powerful Commission. One person finds a route between the two cultures — what he discovers changes everything and threatens more than his life.

There is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a rare fruit called the deathberry—and once a year a handful of citizens are selected to drink it. . . .There is a life lived beneath the water—among rotted buildings and bloated corpses—by those so overburdened by the world's demands that they simply give up and go under. . . .In this mesmerizing blend of the familiar and the fantastic, multiple award-winning New York Times notable author Jeffrey Ford creates true wonders and infuses the mundane with magic. In tales marked by his distinctive, dark imagery and fluid, exhilarating prose, he conjures up an annual gale that transforms the real into the impossible, invents a strange scribble that secretly unites a significant portion of society, and spins the myriad dreams of a restless astronaut and his alien lover. Bizarre, beautiful, unsettling, and sublime, The Drowned Life showcases the exceptional talents of one of contemporary fiction's most original artists.

Set in 1893 New York, the narrative follows portraitist Piero Piambo as he embarks on a unique commission from the enigmatic Mrs. Charbuque. The unusual stipulation that he cannot see her while questioning her leads to an intriguing exploration of her character and the complexities of high society. This richly evocative novel weaves a hypnotic tale that delves into themes of perception, identity, and the intricacies of human connection, creating a compelling literary thriller.

The horrors of sleep paralysis become so much more in Jeffrey Ford's new novella Out of Body.

A group of ramblers are taken to an idyllic other world. But things are not so simple and they find themselves at the centre of a battle between opposing spirits.

"Christmas and Other Horrors" is an anthology that explores the darker side of the winter solstice through original stories. It invites readers to embrace the eerie and horrific traditions of the season, featuring contributions from notable authors. The collection weaves together chilling tales that contrast festive joy with unsettling encounters.

This collection of 27 never-before published stories from an impressive cast—Roddy Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Stuart O'Nan, among others—sets out to shift genre paradigms. The overarching theme is fantastic fiction, or fiction of the imagination, with fantasy being used in the most broad-sweeping sense rather than signaling the familiar commercial staples of elves, ghouls, and robots. Consequently, the collection's offerings run a wide gamut. In Joe Hill's Devil on the Staircase, an Italian boy commits a crime of passion and subsequently meets an emissary of Satan. In Jodi Picoult's Weights and Measures, a young couple who have just lost their daughter struggle to hold their marriage together as they both start noticing strange changes taking place. Chuck Palahniuk's The Loser features a college kid on acid as a contestant on a game show, and in Kurt Andersen's Human Intelligence, a geologist meets an explorer from another planet who has been studying humans for the past 1,600 years. The range of voices and subjects practically guarantees something for any reader, but the overall quality is frustratingly variable: most stories are good, some aren't, and few are exceptional —Publishers Weekly

Der Roman thematisiert das Erwachsenwerden in den 60er Jahren in Amerika und verbindet dabei phantastische Elemente mit einer tiefgründigen Coming-of-Age-Geschichte. Die Erzählung entfaltet sich vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche und persönlicher Herausforderungen, während die Protagonisten ihre Identität und ihren Platz in einer sich verändernden Welt suchen. Jeffrey Ford gelingt es, die Magie des Alltags mit den komplexen Emotionen des Heranwachsens zu verweben und eine nostalgische, aber auch kritische Perspektive auf diese prägende Zeit zu bieten.

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Toto číslo lze brát jako mimořádný speciál věnovaný cenám Nebula. Pokud to nevíte, pak vám prozradíme, že cena Nebula je každoročně udílena jako výsledek hlasování Americké společnosti autorů science fiction a fantasy. Daniel Abraham se v hororové povídce Placatá Diana velmi znepokojivým způsobem podívá na problémy jedné neúplné rodiny. Letos si Nebulu v kategorii krátká povídka odnesla Carol Emshwillerová s příběhem Žiji s tebou, v němž odkryla možnou existenci bytosti žijící nepozorovaně přímo vedle vás. U nás dosud neznámá K. D. Wentworthová se představí povídkou Znovuzrození a přinese nám zajímavý pohled na téma klonování. Nebulou oceněná novela Magie pro začátečníky od Kelly Linkové je příběhem chlapce, jenž patří do skupiny dospívajících, kteří propadli kouzlu zvláštního televizního programu. Paolo Bacigalupi se v povídce Škváropísečníci podívá do nehostinné budoucnosti, kdy se lidstvo muselo přizpůsobit zhoršujícím se ekologickým podmínkám na úkor samotného lidství. A na samotný závěr jsme připravili Nebulou opět odměněnou povídku Stvoření od Jeffreyho Forda. Magazín Fantasy & Science Fiction je jednoduše splněným snem každého milovníka dobrých a čtivých příběhů.... celý text