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Synopsis / Contents:
The Black Heart is a collection of Patrick O'Leary's newest stories. Here you will find aliens and apocalypses, God and Satan, witches and geishas, madonnas and mutes, birds and bears, zoos and prisons, weeping robots and knights who work in hardware, pardons and orgasms, men without legs and aliens without hearts. In short, pretty much your standard O'Leary stash...
"Funny and moving…a distinctive new voice in the field." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Zany, serious, unclassifiable and delightful." -- Kathleen Ann Goonan
"Luminous and constantly surprising." -- Locus
"Read (it) while you still have the mind it is guaranteed to blow." - James Morrow
BIO:
Patrick O'Leary's first novel, Door Number Three, was chosen by Publisher's Weekly as one of the best novels of the year. His second novel, The Gift, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and The Mythopoeic Award. His third novel, The Impossible Bird, made the shortlist for the Nebula Award. Other Voices, Other Doors was his first collection of fiction, essays and poetry.
O'Leary's poetry was chosen for the 17th The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. His short stories have appeared in Postscripts, Mars Probes, Infinity Plus, Sci Fiction, Talebones, Imagination Fully Dilated 2, The Infinite Matrix, Electric Velocipede, and Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists. His novels have been translated into German, Russian, Japanese, Polish, French and Braille. Until recently he was a Creative Director at an advertising agency. His work has won numerous industry awards. He makes his home in the Detroit area. http://web.mac.com/paddybon