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From the Neck Up and Other Stories

By Aliya Whiteley
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From the Neck Up and Other Stories by Aliya Whiteley is a captivating collection of stories that blend the eerie and the fantastical. Each tale explores the human condition through imaginative narratives, often with surreal twists and unexpected elements. Whiteley's unique storytelling delves into themes of identity, society, and transformation, offering thought-provoking journeys into speculative worlds.
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You might enjoy this collection if you're drawn to imaginative and thought-provoking tales that blend science fiction with fantasy. The stories explore unique and unusual narratives that often challenge conventional ideas, which can captivate readers seeking an inventive literary journey.

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From the Neck Up and Other Stories

The new collection of humane, beautiful and disarming short stories from the award-winning author of The Beauty, Clarke Award nominee The Loosening Skin and The Arrival of Missives

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The new collection of humane, beautiful, and disarming short stories from the award-winning author of The Beauty, Clarke Award nominee The Loosening Skin, and The Arrival of Missives, Aliya Whiteley.

In 16 stories, Whiteley deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life through beguiling gardens, rebellious bodies, and journeys across familiar worlds, with her trademark wit and compassion.

Witness the future of farming in a new Ice Age, or the artist bringing life to glass, the many-eyed monsters we carry and the secret cities inside our bodies, the alien invasion through our language to the Chantress and her twists on the fairy tale. Fascinating and always unexpected, Whiteley is unlike any other writer working today.

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Aliya Whiteley's From the Neck Up and Other Stories has garnered much praise for its creativity and depth, merging horror-tinged fantasy with poetic skill. It is described as an unsettling yet humanistic collection, earning comparisons to renowned authors like Shirley Jackson and John Wyndham. Reviewers have highlighted Whiteley's ability to infuse the mundane with the uncanny and her knack for crafting stories that are both intellectually stimulating and deeply imaginative, leaving a lasting impression.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789094756

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 September 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Titan Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 368g

Pages: 368

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Aliya Whiteley Fiction General Fiction Sci-Fi & Fantasy Science Fiction

About the Author

Aliya Whiteley was born in Devon in 1974, and currently lives in West Sussex, UK. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction and has been published in places such as The Guardian, Interzone, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Black Static, Strange Horizons, and anthologies such as Unsung Stories' 2084 and Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction I and II. She has been shortlisted for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, Shirley Jackson Award, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction awards, the John W Campbell Award, and a James Tiptree Jr award. Her stories are unpredictable; they can be terrifying, tender, ferocious and deeply funny. She also regularly reviews film, books and television for Den of Geek. She blogs at: aliyawhiteley.wordpress.com and she tweets most days as @AliyaWhiteley.

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