Darwin's Bastards 2010
By Yann Martel, Zsuzsi Gartner, William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, Adam Lewis Schroeder, Lee Henderson, Stephen Marche, Timothy Taylor, Mark Anthony Jarman, Jessica Grant, Elyse Friedman, Annabel Lyon, Anosh Irani, Buffy Cram, Paul Carlucci, Sheila Heti, Heather O'Neill, Oliver Kellhammer, Laura Trunkey, David Whitton, Pasha Malla, Neil Smith, Jay Brown, Matthew J. Trafford
- Short stories, canadian, Science fiction, Canadian Science fiction, Canadian Short stories
These 23 stories take us on a twisted fun ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a one-legged International Actuarial Forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus engage in their own games of the survival of the fittest.
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Contemporary, cool, classical in form and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
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- Yann Martel, Zsuzsi Gartner, William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, Adam Lewis Schroeder, Lee Henderson, Stephen Marche, Timothy Taylor, Mark Anthony Jarman, Jessica Grant, Elyse Friedman, Annabel Lyon, Anosh Irani, Buffy Cram, Paul Carlucci, Sheila Heti, Heather O'Neill, Oliver Kellhammer, Laura Trunkey, David Whitton, Pasha Malla, Neil Smith, Jay Brown, Matthew J. Trafford
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 453
- Publisher
- Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd., Douglas & McIntyre
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781553656166
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Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize-winning novel *Life of Pi,* an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. *Life of Pi* was adapted for a movie directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars. Martel is also the author of the novels *The High Mountains of Portugal,* *Beatrice and Virgil,* and *Self;* the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios; and a collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister, *101 Letters to a Prime Minister.*
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