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You Might Sleep... the new short story collection by Nick Mamatas is now available:
Check out some of the stories in the book:
- "Real People Slash"
- "The Bloodied Woman"
- "Summon, Bind, Banish"
- "joanierules.bloggermax.com"
- "Withdraw, Withdraw!" (warning: porn)
"Nick Mamatas is one of my favorite writers. His work is consistently entertaining and challenging, combining a quirky mix of social insight, humor, and darkly wondrous fantastical elements. YOU MIGHT SLEEP... is Mamatas at his best--and his most dangerous." Brian Keene, author of Terminal and Castaways
"Nick Mamatas binds politics with an aesthetic of the fantastic, finding eldritch horror in everything from Lovecraft to Abu Ghraib. YOU MIGHT SLEEP... is the last roundup of the monsters from the id of the contemporary American psyche. Read at your peril, read at your pleasure." Jay Lake, author of Mainspring
"YOU MIGHT SLEEP... is a dare. It poses an uncomfortable question: How many of the people from Nick's all-too-real, darkly funny, unblinkingly intelligent stories will you recognize as family, friends, enemies (those who you think of as simply 'them'), or yourself? The answer is easy, if you have the guts to be honest: all of them. And that's scary as hell."--Paul Tremblay, author of The Little Sleep
New short fiction:
- "The Uncanny Valley" in Escape Pod #223 (podcast)
- "The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft" (w/ Tim Pratt) in Pseudo Pod #172 (podcast)
- "joanierules.bloggermas.com" in Drabblecast #144 (podcast)
- "Farewell Performance" in Tor.com (or listen to the podcast)
- "Escapism" in Nature #461
- "Eliminate the Improbable" — in New Dark Voices 2
- "Nice Werk if You Can Get It" (sic) with Davis Schneiderman in subTERRAIN #52
New anthologies:
New non-fiction:
- "Working Class Heroes" in A Taste of True Blood
- "Giving the Devil her Due" in Ardeur
- "Tell-Tale Homes" in Weird Tales #354
- "Bartitsu: The Martial Art for the Steampunk Set" in Clarkesworld #39 (Dec 09)
- "Human, All Too Human: Looking Past the Second Season of True Blood" on the H+ Online Supplement
- "Everything of the Dead: Zombie as Transhuman" in H+
- "The Family Business" in The Smart Set
- "Gothic Revival" in The New Humanist
Under My Roof, the latest novel by Nick Mamatas is now available:
Synopsis:
Herbert Weinberg’s father is striking a blow for freedom. Implanting a nuclear device within a garden gnome in the front yard of their Long Island home, he’s declared independence from the U.S. The household is understandably is an uproar. Mother’s gone, the local weatherman has moved in, and 12-year-old Herbert is simultaneously a hostage and the Minister of Information. A daring raid plucks the lad from his ancestral home, but even while troops surround the belligerent house-state of Weinbergia, the call to freedom has been sounded. The house is rapidly filling up with American refuseniks. Can the refrigerator hold out? And will Herbert’s telepathic powers defeat imperialism and reunite him with his father? Based on Aristophanes’s Acharnians, Under My Roof is funny, ambitous novel.
Reviews:
"In this hilarious near-future political satire, a Long Island father-son duo strike a blow for individual freedom by building a nuclear bomb, hiding it in a lawn gnome and declaring independence from the United States. The world, as seen by telepathic 12-year-old narrator Herbert Weinberg, is grim: Latin America has been declared evil (and Canada is the 'White Menace'), the president talks of nuclear strikes and planes are blown out of the California sky. Herbert's laid-off father, Daniel, has a Patriot Day freak out, and after he and Herb build the nuke and fax out a press release proclaiming the creation of the kingdom of Weinbergia, the cops, FBI and National Guard descend on the home. Herb's mom, Geri, splits, and as the media pick up on the story (the local weatherman is the first hostage of the 'armed micronation'), Weinbergia mania sweeps the nation (even the local Qool Mart convenience store proclaims itself an Islamic republic) and Daniel and Herbie become cult heroes. Trouble looms for Herb, who is kidnapped and briefly reunited with his mother. A big-bang ending caps the fast-paced novel, and there's much fun to be had watching Mamatas (Move Under Ground; Northern Gothic) merrily skewer his targets." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"[A] wise, witty and groundbreaking novel....Mamatas has pulled off the rare feat of writing a novel that's intelligent, joyfully probing and still breezy fun to talk about over appetizers or desserts." BookSlut
"[A]n oddball, occasionally hilarious, surprisingly wise and out-and-out subversive little pocket-nuke of a book." San Diego Union-Tribune
"Under My Roof is accurate, fast-moving satire that transcends mere target shooting by virtue of its narrator, Daniel's 12-year-old son, Herbie....The scary thing about Under My Roof is that some readers might feel more secure being ruled by a telepathic adolescent than by anyone currently in power." Los Angeles Times
"Nick Mamatas is one of the liveliest and most exciting new writers around." Thomas Beller, author of The Sleep-Over Artist
"Nick Mamatas has written a witty, surprising, smart book. It's the first (and best) young adult satire about nuclear arms, lawn gnomes, mind-reading, and growing up. Herbert Weinberg is my favorite 12-year-old — and he knows it." Zoe Trope, author of Please Don't Kill The Freshman