LEADER 03092nam 2200565 450 001 9910794441603321 005 20230729144136.0 010 $a0-253-05681-0 010 $a0-253-05682-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011766247 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6479699 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6479699 035 $a(OCoLC)1237870903 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_100496 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30411751 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30411751 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011766247 100 $a20230729d2021 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe World of Dew and Other Stories /$fJulian Mortimer Smith 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aBloomington, Indiana :$cIndiana University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (162 pages) 225 1 $aBlue Light Bks. 311 $a0-253-05680-2 327 $aCome-from-aways -- The world of dew -- Barb-the-bomb and the yesterday boy -- The fumblers alley risk emporium -- The mugger's hymn -- The washerwoman and the troll -- Professor Jennifer Magda-Chichester's time machine -- Joey Lerath's rocket ship -- The visible spectrum -- Headshot -- Anxiety boy and the confidence men -- Hospice -- The monster -- Practice -- Foundation -- Keeping it real -- An oral history of the city beneath -- The surface of the moon. 330 $aThe World of Dew and Other Stories, chosen by Michelle Pretorius as the 2020 Blue Light Books Prize winner, invites readers into 18 different universes that have unexpected resonances with our own modern life. While these tales are unabashedly sci-fi and fantasy, Julian Mortimer Smith approaches each at a curious angle. Ghosts are cataloged using a Pokemon Go-like app, a soldier has to get enough upvotes on social media before he is allowed to take a shot, and a golden age of cooperation begins as societies around the world prepare for a looming pandemic of blindness. In addition to featuring stories that have appeared in some of the world's top speculative fiction outlets, The World of Dew and Other Stories also includes five new stories published here for the first time. These tales are sometimes terrifying, sometimes touching, sometimes provocative, and occasionally very silly. They function both as windows through which readers can glimpse vast universes waiting to be explored and as mirrors reflecting our own reality back at us in a strange and unfamiliar light. 410 0$aBlue Light Bks. 606 $aFantasy fiction 606 $aNovelle 606 $aScience fiction, American 606 $aShort stories 615 0$aFantasy fiction. 615 0$aNovelle. 615 0$aScience fiction, American. 615 0$aShort stories. 676 $a813.6 700 $aSmith$b Julian Mortimer$01463910 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794441603321 996 $aThe World of Dew and Other Stories$93673426 997 $aUNINA